Location (Groningen , Holland)
Date (22-10-2011)
Media (Photoshop CS2)
Sketch of my first ever view of Jupiter.
You can see Europa , Callisto , Ganymede and the shadow of Io. Also an dark barge at the north equatorial band.
The small dot on the bottom left is probably a star
Hope you’ll like it.
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Greetings,
Details:
– Object: IC342 (Caldwell 5) in Camelopardalis
– Object Type: Galaxy – member of Local Group
– Location: Grandpré (France) – NELM 6.1
– Date: 24th September 2011
– Telescope: Schmitt-Cassegrain C11 on CGEM mount
– Eyepiece: Televue Nagler 13mm Type 6 –> 215x, 23 arcm
– Media: Graphite pencil on white paper –> digitally scan & inverted
A group of a dozen Dutch and Belgian experienced observers had organised a starparty end of September, an hour over the French border to seek dark skies for “genuine” deepsky work. We had a splendid weekend with three clear skies, many exceptional observations and beautiful memories that were taken back home.
The Local Member galaxy IC 342 is quite a challenge – even for experienced observers, since it has a very low surface brightness of 14.6 over a total surface of 20 arcminutes. This observation was made under those good dark conditions and took more than an hour to screen the entire field of view for faint details. Direct observation only visualised the bright core of the galaxy with a hue of nebulosity over the entire field of view. A quite noticeable chain of 6 bright stars lies southwest of the core. Averted observation finally resolved the faint spiral arms of this galaxy and several bright HII regions became visible.
I hope you enjoy the sketch!
Kind regards,
Tom Corstjens
Belgium
Location: Bialystok, Poland
Date: 22 Oct 2011, 0730-0830 local time
Media: Digital tools (Photoshop)
Weather: Cloudy and foggy morning, temperature -2 degree Celsius
Equipment: Binoculars Bresser Hunter 10×50
Object Name: Eastern Veil (NGC 6992)
Object Type:Supernova Remnant
Location: Budy Dłutowskie – small village in central Poland
Date: 05.08.2011
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, color invert
Telescope: Columbus 13” (320/1387 Newtonian telescope) + Orion Q70 26mm + Baader OIII filter
Seeing: 2/5
Transparency: 1/5
NELM: 5,9 mag
Hello again,
After quite long break I’m back with new telescope and new portion of sketches.
So, This time I want to present you one of the most spectacular objest of summer sky – Veil Nebula. On sketch you can find only eastern part of this nebula complex..
Of course most impressive views you can achieved with OIII filter – you can see then a lot of gas fibres and observe a depth of the view (like 3D view).
Very impressive object for large mirrors (>10”).
Clear sky
Łukasz
Location: Europe – Austria – Burgenland- Stegersbach 47° 10′ N, 16° 10′ O
Date: 11. Oct. 2010
Media: Colored Pencils
Instrument: 150/1800mm Maksutov, EQ6,
The weather was perfect. Seeing was also perfect.
Thank you
Markus Vertesich
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date: 3rd October 2011
Media: Graphite pencil used on white paper
Equipment used: 130/650 SW, 93x
Dear Asod,
I send you here my sketch about Mare Serenitatis, an area where a very interesting landscape can be observed. We can see craters, chains of hills, ruptures and deeper areas in one place, also with different colours in the material. I liked it so much I tried to sketch despite it was not an easy peace of cake. I hope you will like it.
Kind regards,
Judit Hannak
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dr. Hannák Judit
Object name: Messier 13 (NGC 6205)
Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Sandown, UK
Date: October 15, 2011
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper, inverted in Photoshop.
Equipment: 18 inch f/4.3 Dobsonian with an 11mm Televue Plossl (180x).
Ever since I became interested in deep sky observing and sketching nearly 20 years ago, I have mostly used 6, 8 and 12 inch telescopes for my observations, plus the odd big ones (20, 36 and 48 inches) at star parties such as Texas. My new 18 inch dob has now brought my observing into a Whole New Realm – the magnitude or so difference over my 12 inch means that there is a lot more to see.
On October 15th, as the conditions were a bit lousy (nearly-full Moon plus some mist), I didn’t bother with the faint galaxy-hunting I had been doing lately and decided to sketch M13 instead. I haven’t done a lot of sketching while using the 18 inch yet, as I have spent the time in my six sessions with it so far searching for more detail in objects and things such as faint galaxies in the field of view.
While sketching M13 I found – totally unsurprisingly – that the big and more detailed objects are far more challenging to sketch when viewed in larger apertures. You’re just overwhelmed with the profusion of detail and M13 is a prime example of this; while it isn’t totally resolved in the 18 inch, it is a very large glittering ball of many stars.
Faith Jordan
Hello everyone,
This last new moon I managed to pin onto paper the fabulous Swan Nebula, M17. After my previous new Moon’s view of it, I’ve been chaffing at the bit to get back to it. It is just so detailed, expansive, and subtle in features.
Most striking is the particularly dark hollow that is surrounded by the ‘neck’ of the Swan. It is so much darker than the surrounding space. Here is a tell-tale-sign of not only a dark pillar obstructing the light from the nebula, but that there is so much background light that comes from the background, invisible stars in this section of the Milky Way, that this dark pillar is just SO BLACK.
My previous look at the Swan had me see for the first time the highly textured nature of the ‘bird’s body’. This time, with the added time spent on looking at it, I noticed so much more extensive nebulosity that radiates out from the obvious avian shape. These extensions themselves are so very detailed.
As my big dob is of the good old push-pull type, the constant manual moving of the scope had my eye picking up this faint network of faint smokiness, that a ‘static’ image from a driven scope may not have allowed to be viewed so easily. Such as the heightened darkness immediately above and below the bird’s back and body, only to have more nebulosity sit above and below it, and even behind it. The effect was akin to a swan emerging from out of a soft bank of fog, and the bird’s movement through it causing a delicate disruption to the fog. Just beautiful.
This was a real challenge to sketch. So much of the object is so faint, needing averted vision to make it out. The mottled texture of the bird’s plumage was extraordinarily difficult to make out and lay down faithfully. So much of this is all averted vision work.
By far my most satisfying sketch to date. I hope you enjoy it too.
Object: M17, the Swan Nebula
Scope: 17.5”, f/4.5, push-pull dob.
Gear: 13mm Ethos (thanks Jim!), + OIII filter, 154X
Date: 30th July, 2011
Location: Mount Blackheath Lookout, NSW, Australia
Materials: White soft pastels & charcoal pencil on A4 size black paper, done over 3hrs.
Alex.
Object Name: NGC 6853 (M 27)
Object Type: Planetary nebula
Location: Cittadella (Italy)
Date: September 10, 2010
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted in Gimp
Instrument: 120 mm achromatic refractor (f/8.3)
Eyepiece: Flat Field 16 mm (62.5x) and O-III filter
Conditions: Clear with some light pollution
A classic planetary nebula observed from a suburban locality. The use of the O-III filter really improves the observation of this object.
Clear skies,
Massimo
Object Type: Galaxy in Ursa Major
Location: Sudelfeld, Bavarian Alps, Germany
Date: 27. August 2011, 11PM
Media: graphite pencil
Observer: Christian Rausch
Telescope: 12inch/F5 Dobson (Hofheim Instruments)
Conditions:
– SQML = 21,40 mag/arcsec*2, seeing ok, Temp. +7C
– 115x (Nagler 13mm)