Pallas and Ruinous Murchison

Pallas and Murchison
Pallas and Murchison

Dear Lunar fans hope this might be of interest? A study of Pallas and ruinous Murchison I made yesterday evening (January 31, 2012, 2130UT), I was using the Watec 120N+ with the 20″ mirror onto a b&w monitor, very cosy in the -3 temp outdoors, various pastels, pencils and paint were used on black heavy grained art paper.

Best, Dale
http://chippingdaleobservatory.com/blog/

Sun – November 9, 2011

Sun - November 9, 2011
Sun - November 9, 2011

Hello!
The Sun is my fawourite object to sketch that is why I am sending you this sketch, drawn 9.11.2011 at 12:20, in Ely, England.
I have used my SkyMaster 15×70 binoculars and the foil filter (Seymour Solar) which gives natural looking colors (The Sun is orange).
The conditions that day where cloudy, so I had to be patient waiting for The Sun to reappear from behind the clouds.
I have used graphite pencils and the stamps to draw it on smooth white paper. The drawing is 16 cm( 6,2 inch ) in diameter.

Clear skies

Agnieszka Adamkiewicz

Practice with Copernicus and Erastosthenes

Copernicus and Erastosthenes Craters
Copernicus and Erastosthenes Craters

Object Name: Copernicus & Erastosthenes craters
Object Type: Lunar Crater
Location: Madrid (Spain). Sketching course at Asociacion Astronomica Madrid Sur (AAMS)
Date: 4/feb/2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper

Additional information: This sketching was my very first one, produced as a practice during a course managed by local recognized artist Moisés Rojas Cabezudo during an activity of Agrupacion Astronomica Madrid Sur (www.aamadridsur.org). The model was a picture of this lunar area

Copernicus is a lunar impact crater 95kms wide and 3.8kms deep, located in Oceanus Procellarum. It is estimated to be rather young because there is no lava flooding the base of the crater. There is a prominent ray system spreading up to 800kms around.

Eratosthenes is a relatively deep lunar impact crater localted in Mare Imbrium, ending the Apenninus Mons. There is a prominent central peak and terrace walls surrounding the inner walls of the crater.

Please find more information and high resolution pictures at http://www.astronomica.es/imagen.asp?id=1&seccion=1&id_prod=309

Orion Nebula and Surroundings

Messier 42
Messier 42
Messier 42
Messier 42 - Inverted

Dear Asod,

I send you here my sketch about M42 and NGC1981.
The Orion Nebula was one of the first things I have ever sketched and observed and this is still one of my favourites. When observing it in a full view NGC1981 is visible within the same FoV, a small but nicely shaping open cluster. I thought I will leave out the FoV and just sketch as it is, so the whole drawing in length is approximately 2°.
Equipment used: 130/650 SW, 26x
Media: graphite pencil on white paper (Photoshop to invert)
Observing date: 25th January 2012, UT: 22:30
Place: Hungary, Budapest

Clear skies,
Judit