Comet Lovejoy

C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)
C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)

Hi,

My name is Peter M Moriz. I live at Moonee Beach, Australia. I’ve just started to do sketching. This is my third sketch I’ve attempted. The other 2 were of small g/c’s…..

This sketch was done at Nana Glen west of my home town to get a little darker skies to see more of the comet’s tail. It was done naked eye and it goes from horizon to crux, say around 30 to 35 degrees. I put the milky way in the top of sketch to get some idea of how big the comet has become. The Coal Sack is there as well….it was done on the 28th of December 2011 and around 3.30am and had taken me around 45 minutes to do..I hope you enjoy the sketch–Alex, a fellow sketcher here in Australia, said I should submit it.

Media: black sketch paper A4 size with white pastel and white ink pen

Thanks for the time to read and view my sketch.

Peter (Mozzie) :my nickname

Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter

Moon/Jupiter Conjunction
Moon/Jupiter Conjunction

Hi!
I present to You my sketch of the Moon and Jupiter conjunction.

Objects: Moon & Jupiter
Date: December 6, 2011
Time: About 23:00 (11:00 PM)
Place: Nowy Sącz, Poland
Equipment: Binoculars Bresser 10×50
Conditions: High clouds, light fog.
Technique: White pastels on navy blue art paper. Some correction and tooling with GIMP2
Author: Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)

Antennae Galaxies

NGC 4038, 4039
NGC 4038, 4039

Object Name: NGC4038 and NGC4039
Object Type: The Antennae Galaxies (Corvus)
Location: Roque de Los Muchachos, La Palma
Date: 30. June 2011, 11:50 PM
Media: Chalk pencil on black paper
Observer: Christian Rausch
Telescope: 12inch/F5 Dobson (Hofheim Instruments)

Conditions:
– SQML = 21,65 mag/arcsec*2, seeing ok, Temp. +12C
– 165x (Nagler 9mm)

The Roque de los Muchachos is one of the best places to observe the night sky and main base of the European Northern Observatory.

It was impressive experience to spend the night on the top of the 2450m high Volcano and in between observatories like Galileo Galilel, William Herschel, Isaac Newton or the GTC.

Best Regards
Christian

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NGC 1187 Galaxy in Eridanus

NGC 1187
NGC 1187

NGC 1187 Spiral Galaxy in Eridanus
Spiral Galaxy
Location: Rush Valley, Utah
December 26th, 2011
Charcoal on Black Paper

The night after Christmas was clear so me and my observing buddy and friend Mat went out to the West Desert here in Utah for a night of observing. I am working on the Eridanus and Fornax Galaxy Clusters right now and this one was a good place to start. I used my 27mm Panoptic as my finder and the galaxy popped right out with it. It was large, spacious and somewhat faint. I then moved to a 10mm Pentax XW and found more detail. The nucleus is stellar with a bright core region around it, surrounded by diffusion. Using averted vision popped the core. Fun object to find, observe and sketch. I used my Orion XX14i on this object, which is a 14 inch truss dob. The conditions were clear, cold, about 15 degrees and the seeing is rated at an Antoniadi II.

Little Dumbbell in Perseus

Messier 76
Messier 76

· OBJECT NAME: M76 – planetary nebula in Perseus
· OBJECT TYPE: planetary nebula
· LOCATION: Jodłów – small village in southern Poland (picture made during StarParty Jodłów 2011)
· DATE: 30.09.2011
· MEDIA: graphite pencil, white paper, color invert
· TELESCOPE: Columbus 320UL (320/1384 Newtonian) + TV Ethos 8mm + Lumicon UHC 2”
· SEEING: 1/5 (very good)
· TRANSPARENCY: 2/5 (good)
· NELM: 6,4 mag

A very interesting and unusual Messier object. In large mirror (larger than 12”) under very dark sky, you can observe central dumbbell shape and outer “arcs” of nebulosity. Very spectacular object really worth to observe.

Clear Sky
Łukasz

Jupiter and Its Moons

Jupiter and Moons

Dear Asod,

I send you here the sketch made by my daughter, age of 6.

She likes coming out with me and watching the sunspots, the lunar craters and planets, but this was the very first time she sketched like the ‘big ones’. She has stood next to the telescope with a pencil and a notepad and examined the object very knowingly just like an adult does it. Finally she came out with this sketch, which was quite realistic. The moons are in their place and also she could see a few additional stars.

Sketch made by: Liliana Rudolf
Date: 18th December 2011
Location: Hungary, Budapest
Equipment used: 130/650 SW, 26x
Media: graphite pencil on white paper

Clear skies,
Judit Hannak

Daylight Moon

Daylight Moon

Daylight Moon
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Dear Asod,

I send you here my sketch made of the Moon in daylight. on 18th December everybody was after Lovejoy, but I had no chance to observe it, as from my observing place I am unable to block out the Sun. However, the Moon was up and visible until around UT 10:00, so I decided to go for it.
I observed it with 26x, without any filters (I had tried with neutral filter, but it did not help, so I took it out).

Date: 18th December 2011, UT: 9:00-10:00
Equipment used: 130/650 SW
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper
Location: Budapest, Hungary

dr. Hannák Judit