Hunting for M92

Messier 92
Messier 92

Object Name: Messier 92
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Poland/Starogard Gdański
Date: 24.07.2012
Media: graphite pencil/digital tools (GIMP)
Weather Conditions: Clear sky, light pollution from street lanterns
Time:1:30 AM
Equipment: SW 150/750 ,Baader Hyperion 13mm.

Hi everyone!
This is my next DS sketch. This time I drew M92 globular cluster. I
used Baader Hyperion 13mm Eyepiece. In my opinion this is quite good
Eyepiece for this sort of things. As my media I used graphite pencil
and white sheet of paper. I did small corretions in GIMP too. M92 is
one of my favourite deep sky obejcts. It’s small globule but for me
its admirable. So, I spent about 2h doing this sketch. Mainly because
its hard to locate this quantity of stars properly.The weather was
good enough to made this capture, I wish you have clear sky too.
However the seeing was not excellent again but its not uncommon in a
place where I live. Additionally light pollution from streets lanterns
irritate me all the time. However astronomy is too fantastic hobby to
stop doing sketches only because of lanterns.
I hope you enjoy my sketch.

Greetings from Poland

Robert Weiss

Little Lens, Low Lagoon

Messier 8
Messier 8

Object Name: Messier 8, Lagoon Nebula
Object Type: Emission nebula
Location: Wilp, The Netherlands
Date: July 21, 2012
Media: Black pen and graphite pencil on white paper

After literally weeks of rainfall and clouds, last night the sky finally cleared. I took my little 80mm f/6,25 refractor out to a fairly dark site to observe some low Milky Way objects. In the Netherlands Messier 8 rises only 14 degrees above the southern horizon, but because of the very transparant sky much more detail than I expected was visible. Using an Orion Ultrablock filter the dark lane was pretty prominent, and the bright patch on the western side of the nebula appeared to glow. It was a wonderful sight at 38x (13mm Vixen LVW), even at its low altitude.
The sketch was made with a black pen (for the stars) and a 2H graphite pencil (for the nebulosity) on a piece of white paper. Inverted and orientation-flip using Photoshop.

Kind regards and clear skies!

Roel Weijenberg,
Deventer, The Netherlands
www.roelblog.nl

NGC 6826

NGC 6826
NGC 6826

Object Name: NGC6826, the Blinking Planetary
Object Type: Planetary Nebula
Location: Terneuzen, the Netherlands
Date: 21-06-2012Media: Photoshop, using several layers to make it smooth
NELM: 5.8
Seeing: average 6-7/10

This sketch was made using a 8 inch newtonian telescope on an HEQ-5 Pro from Skywatcher. The magnification I did used was around 400 times.
The central star was seen with ease and the ‘blinking’, where this planetary is known of, wasn’t seen with the magnification I used for the sketch. After several minutes of waiting for moments of good seeing, I noticed something strange. Something I haven’t seen in other sketches with the same aperture. It was a central bar, running from one end of the oval planetary to the other. Really nice to see a surprise like this.

After checking the internet, I’ve found some sketches and observations of some brighter parts of this planetary. At both end of the over planetary, there are some spots which are called FLIERS. Together with the brighter central spot and some ‘average’ seeing, it would probably merged together and be the reason for seeing a ‘bar’ instead of three brighter spots.

Luuk Haarmans

NGC 4565 – The Needle Galaxy

NGC 4565
NGC 4565

Object Name: NGC 4565
RA: 12h 33m 52.0s, Dec: +26 ° 15 ’46 ”
Magnitude: 9.2
Constellation: Coma Berenices.
Type: Galaxy.
Location: Bonilla. Cuenca. SPAIN
Date: May 19, 2012.
Time: 23:30 T.U.
Materials used: Graphite pencil on white paper. Inverted image and processed with Photoshop.
Celestron Telescope S / C 8 “Mount Cgt-5
Ocular Hyperion Aspheric 31 mm:
Mag.: 65x.
Conditions: NEML: 5.64 (Chart 16 UMa-CVn) Temp.: 12°C, humidity 52%, Calm.

More information: http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com

ASOD Now Available in Persian: www.iranasod.com

We have some exciting news for our viewers who read Persian. Kambiz Khaleghi, an amateur astronomer from Iran, has been working hard to translate ASOD. The Persian-language site can now be found at www.IranASOD.com. We hope the site helps generate further interest and participation from the global astronomical sketching community.

Jeremy Perez
for Astronomy Sketch of the Day

NGC 6520 and Barnard 86

NGC 6520 and Barnard 86
NGC 6520 and Barnard 86

The observation has been made through a 20” dobson Obsession, at Tivoli lodge, Kalahari desert, altitude 1535m, Namibia, on june 2012.
Eyepieces used are Ethos 21mm and 13mm without filters; target was at 45° height.
Drawing made entirely with Paintshop pro, based upon a sketch at the eyepiece.
More details at www.deepsky-drawings.cm

Regards
Bertrand

Cold night, Omega Nebula

Messier 17
Messier 17

Omega Nebula (M17, NGC6618)
Emission Nebula
Apparent Magnitude: 6
Itajobi, SP, Brazil
July 8th, 2011
04h00 (U.T.)
2B 0.5mm graphite pencil on white paper
180mm dobsonian reflecting telescope
15mm Super Plossl eyepiece
Magnification: 72 x
Seeing: Antoniadi 2 (good, 2/5)
NELM: 5.5

That cold night, a fair wind blew intermittently since early. I just pointed my 7.1″ mirror to a dark and cloudless sky, expecting to see many details in some objects. One of them was the beautiful, maybe I should say stunning, Omega Nebula. The seeing was good enough, although not perfect, to allow me to examine each detail my telescope could capture. I was able to see something close to what I proudly share with you, artists, in this sketch, plus some other stars that have been omitted. My lack of ability maybe has limited the magnificence of the view, but I hope you enjoy it the way I did. It was a great night, of a great month of observations.
Dark skies to everyone.

Greetings from Brazil,

Rodrigo P. C.

Transit of Venus from Alavi High school

Transit of Venus
Transit of Venus

Hello
I’m AhmadReza Hoseini from Alavi Association of Astronomy.
I and my َAstronomy students in Alavi high school in Tehran had a memorable Observation of Venus transit in 6 June 2012.
This sketch from Ali BabaNalbandi is the best in students’ sketches.
in addition, I attached some pictures of our observation for you.
Excuse us for the delay in sending this sketch.
We have got familiar with your site during this month and we hope to have better communications and interactions with you in future.

Sketch Properties:
Observer: Ali BabaNalbandi
Object Name: Venus Transit 2012
Object Type: Sun & Venus
Location: Alavi (High School) Association of Astronomy, Tehran, Iran
Date: 6 June 2012
Media: graphite pencil, charcoal, gouache, watercolor
Observing Tool: SkyWatcher 8″ Dob
Weather: Sunny and clear
seeing: very good

Yhank you
A.R. Hoseini
Astronomy Teacher at Alavi Association of Astronomy
(Alavi High school)