Several Days with the Orion Nebula

Messier 42 and 43
Messier 42 and 43

Hi all!

That was the longest observation, in my life. I drew the Orion nebula for several days (total length of over 5 hours).
2012-03-18 Day 1. – the brightest stars are sketched (50 minutes)
2012-03-19 Day 2. – The faint stars drew a picture (up to magnitude 13) (90 minutes)
2012-03-20 Day 3. – I drew in high mist details dark and clear sky. (90 minutes)
2012-03-21 Day 4. – worked in the drawing (approximately 120 minutes)

Location: Nagyvarsány/Hungary
Observer: Viktor Cseh
Telescope: 140/880 Newtonian telescope, 35X, 88X, 176X

More drawings: viktorcsehdraws.blogspot.com

Clear Skies! 🙂

Viktor

Messier 65 and 66

Messier 65 and 66
Messier 65 and 66

Hey Artists!

My sketch shows two Messier galaxies in the ocularfield, M. 65 and M. 66 in Leo
in the middle distance between Theta and Iota Leonis.
I did not get a trio with the northern galaxy, because of my smaller field in my
f/ 10 telescope. But the pair was beautiful to observe under good atmospheric
quallity!
In the last years, I can see that the weather and skyconditions gets worse and
worse. When its clear sky and cold, the sky turns grey and with turbulences.
What is happening??
More info on my sketch.
I used pencil on white paper on my sketch and inverted .
Location: Trondheim, Norway.

Clear sky to all. Per-Jonny Bremseth.

Many thanks for comments!!

The Blue Snowball

NGC 7662
NGC 7662

In a cold night last December I decided to spend some time observing NGC 7662, the Blue Snowball nebula in Andromeda, and the observation resulted in this sketch. At low powers it looks like a fuzzy star that shows a remarkable bluish color, which is probably the most evident color I’ve seen in a deep sky object. At high powers that color is lost, but the nebula starts to show a low contrast annular structure: it appeared to me as a slightly oval, thick ring with a small, not very dark central zone. The whole nebula had a “mottled” appearance, but no additional detail was visible.

Sketch: 2HB graphite pencil on white paper, scanned and processed with Photoshop CS3
Object Name: NGC 7662, the Blue Snowball
Object Type: Planetary nebula
Location: Asturias, Spain
Date: December 26th, 2011
Instrument: 120mm f/8.3 refractor + Planetary 9mm + barlow 2x (222x)
NELM: around 5.3, moderate light pollution

Clear skies!
Diego González

H-Alpha Sun – April 22, 2012

H-Alpha Sun - April 22, 2012
H-Alpha Sun - April 22, 2012

Object Name: Sun in Ha
Object Type: Full disk solar sketch
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Date: April 22, 2012
Media: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Equipment: Coronado PST/Solarmax 40

Amazing view of the Sun through my Coronado PST/Solarmax 40 DS. Many active regions, filaments, sunspots and a big prominence!! Sketch made in Photoshop CS3.
Greetings from Greece!

Stratos Tsanaktsidis

Rediscovery of M36

Messier 36
Messier 36

M36 (OC in Auriga)
Location : Ulsan, South Korea
Date : Jan/24/2012 (1hr)
Media : White paper, Sharp pencil (0.7mm, 0.5mm)
Equipment : Discovery 15″ Dob, Pentax XL 14mm

M36 is a small and sparse open cluster..
But, M36 has Sagittarius in the inside of cluster!

Please check the below link.

http://www.nightflight.or.kr/xe/files/attach/images/25489/512/045/516c3c95908a8716dbe918d2cc219c68.jpg

Nightwid 無雲

A Deep Impression of M13

Messier 13
Messier 13

Oject name: M13
Type of object: Globular Star Cluster
Date: 13 April 2012
seeing 7/10
Type of telescope: Newton 200/1200, eypiece: BST 8mm
Location:Psary, in Poland
Media: White paper, pencil 2B

Hey, I send my sketch M 13th I live in Poland in the village Psary. The sky is very dark so you can see faint stars with a brightness up to 6 magnitudes. M13 is my favorite object to observe through my 8 “telescope. Telescope 8” I am able to break the globular clusters of stars near to the center. Large field of view in the eyepiece and the nearby nature make a deep impression of observation. My sketch done in pencil 2B , on white paper and then reversed the color in the GIMP.

Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Messier 13
Messier 13

Constellation Hercules
Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Plattsburgh, NY
Date: April 14, 2012
Time: 01:30am EDT
Materials used: 2H Graphite Pencil, 6B ex. soft charcoal pencil
Celestron Omni XLT 150 (6″)
12.5 Zhumel Plossl eyepiece giving 60x magnification
Conditions: Clear, Light polluted skies (Orange on the Bortle Scale)

Mars – February 10, 2012

Mars - February 10, 2012
Mars - February 10, 2012

On the night of Feburuary 10 th, 2012, ….. with a good, stable atmosphere, I could observe fairly good details on the surface of Mars.

General whole details of my sketch are seems to resemble the photographes of Fredd. Willems in the [Alpo – japan ] homepage on FEB. 3th , 2012. who had taken it with a C 14.

One of differences between my sketch and C 14 photoes is , the size, shape of the rather graysh white elliptical spot which sticked together beside the ” BIGGER” white NPC. …… my sketch shows ( that is to say, in the eyepiece view ….) a fairly more bigger size elliptical spot than C-14 photo.

telescope; 8 inches achromat f/ 12 refractor at x500
home-made equatorial
Location; at backyard my house in South Korea
white paper, graphite pencils