My 9 year old daughter Maia was out exploring the moon last night through our 8” Dobsonian. She used 14mm & 27mm eyepieces to observe the January 1st, 2012 moon. She recorded details using an Astro Sketch form I had on hand.
The night was clear & seeing was good, and in her words “The craters were huge”
Object – Moon
Date – 1/1/2012
Place – Maui, Hawaii
Telescope – 8” Orion SkyQuest
Media – Graphite pencil & charcoal on white paper
2011 12 26 – Mars
www.pcwobservatory.com
Erika Rix, Ohio, USA
We’ve been fortunate to have a few clear nights for observing lately. Mars season is upon us and it feels great to have a chance to try out my new filter set: Mars, 82A blue and 21 orange.
This sketch is a composite of all three filters. I started off with the Mars filter for an overall view. Syrtis Major was the first area I noticed. Next were the north polar cap and the darkened area around it. Faint structure started to appear but became even more apparent when I switched to the orange filter. Lastly was the blue filter that made the NPC and Hellas pop out dramatically. The following limb was brightened. Seeing was above average with slightly poor transparency. The session had to end because of clouds, but I felt the session was pretty much completed by that time anyway.
The sketch was created using charcoal on card stock, charcoal pencils, willow charcoal, vinyl eraser pencil and kneaded rubber eraser.
Hello to all and first of all my best wishes 2012.
I have just discovered your site and simply thank you for the division…
I subject you a drawing of Jupiter made in the evening by 26 decembre on 2011…
Object name: Jupiter 20111226 20 o’clock 39 UT
Rent: Bailly Romainvilliers France dates: 20111226
Media: pencil and graphite pastel
Duration of the drawing: 40 mn
Material(Equipment): binocular Celestron C11 – G280 to G375
Web site: www.astrophotgraphie.com
Notes: what struck me, it is first of all at the level of the SEB (left left extremity of the drawing of bottom). Many of moutonnement, very shambolic and difficult to retranscribe I did not know if it was incomplete ovals either lines overlapping by moment, that looked like a “boxing ring” (term unfit for this latitude I grant it) then, the north temperate zone passed of the color tinted in a slightly brownish color little contrasted according to the observation…
For the NEB, very honestly and even if it is little contrasted, the halving seemed to me very visible…
White spots ( more or less marked ovals) were observed in the moderated south south band (among three of which a visible very clear and well marked all around what could assimilate to a depression)…
Excuse for my bad English
clear skies
Jean-Christophe BIAVATI
M15 (GC in Pegasus)
Location : Kang-Won do, South Korea
Date : Sep/9/2011 (1hr)
Media : White paper, Sharp pencil (0.7mm, 0.5mm), Scan & Invert
Equipment : Discovery 15″ Dob, Nagler 9mm
I observed M15 under best sky condition.
Some star chains and star vacancy regions across the GC.
And finally I found Pease1. (Not visible in this sketch. Pease1 needs O3 filter)
Pease1 observation is very difficult.
So I use ‘Blinking Method’ with O3 filter..
If you want to see my Pease1 sketch, please refer to below link.
http://www.nightflight.or.kr/xe/33742
Nightwid 無雲
Hello artists,allo.k. after the big dinner of this days? I started my sketch activity very good, I go to hill near my town and, with my refractor kenko 80mm 1000 of focal length, I have observed in first time Venus (very low and disturbed by turbulence), Moon and at the end Jupiter.
When i see in the scope made my shout: “Wow”!!
I see the transit of IO in front the giant and his shadow!! I’m very lucky!
I made with pen the first version of sketch, after i realized a copy with graphite pencil.
I hope to continue in this line for all 2012…
Clear sky at all
Ciao, Giorgio-
Site: Pergola (serraspinosa hill), 1 January 2012 from 5,15 p.m to 6,00 p.m.
Instrument: Refractor Kenko 80/1000
Eyepiece: 6mm lsantanium vixen
Seeing: Good,light turbulence
Temperature: No cold. light wind.
-object name: NGC 2392 “the Eskimo Nebula”
-object type: Planetary Nebula
-Location: Downey, Ca., USA.
-date: 01/01/2012.
-media: 1st sketch ever. No. 2 pencil on white paper.
-used: 200mm f/4 Astro-Tech Newtonian and 5mm TeleVue Nagler Type 6. One of the best seeing conditions in Los Angeles in the past 2 or 3 months.
Alex Aguilera
Object: Messier 78 (reflection nebula, Ori)
Date:
20 December 2011.
25 December 2011.
Equipment: 305/1525 Dobsonian telescope
Mag.: 191x
Seeing: 4 / 10
Transparency: 4-5 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya
Location: Sükösd, Hungary
On the night of Dec. 20, 2011 I managed to catch a tansit of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter with the shadow of the moon Europa also tranisting near the GRS. The telescope used was a 120mm refractor at 125x while observing in my suburban Orleans, Ontario, Canada backyard. The sketch was done at the eyepiece and later cleaned up in Paint Shop Pro. The colour was added with coloured pencils and pasted into the reversed scan of the original sketch.
Clear skies,
Gordon Webster
Object Name: M 38 (NGC 1912)
Type: Open Cluster
Constellation: Auriga.
Observing Location: Bonilla. Cuenca. SPAIN.
Date: December 26, 2011
Material used: graphite pencil on white paper. Sketch processed with Photoshop.
Telescope: Celestron S/C 8″ Mount Cgt5
Eyepiece: 31 mm Hyperion (65X).
NELM: 6.0; Temp.: -2’5ºC
More information about the sketch and M 38 in:
http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com/
Dear ASOD!
There are my first digital sketches…
Messier 3 – Messier 12 Globulal clusters
Celestron 50AZ 50/600 refractor
20 mm okular
30x magnification
White paper, graphite pencil -> Gimp 2.6
Tiszaeszlár, Hungary
2011.11.05.
Ferenc Balogh
Thank You!
