Astronomy Sketch of the Day – Page 44 – Drawings and sketches of an astronomical nature

Orion’s Belt

My last observation of the official winter season, I chose the infamous asterism of Orion’s Belt. Perhaps one of the most recognizable formations in the Northern Hemisphere night sky, it is often best studied and seen in the winter… thus, my farewell to Winter… and hello to Spring! My eyes were also drawn to a sort of secondary formation that seemed to snake through the “belt”. Orion was a hunter, so perhaps aside from his sword, he carried some rope with him as well!

Object: Orion’s Belt
Date: March 18th, 2014 – 9:45 – 10:30pm CT
Location: New Braunfels, Texas – back yard
Conditions: 66°F, clear, just before the full moon rose
Instruments: 10×50 Wide-Angle Binoculars
Medium: Graphite on white sketch paper, inverted

Stars of Jen
http://stars.jenbishop.com

The Sun Is a Star

From time to time, with friends, we animate minor scientific events in small Provencal villages.

Today March 19th we were in Varages with the local AAP astro club. Fifty kids and residents came to have a look at our star’s volatile proms in H-alpha and some nice spots archipelago’s in WL. We used 3 refractors, a Lunt 35mm a Coronado 60mm and a classical 102/1000 for the WL. The annexed sketch was done in H-alpha, directly on site, to show to the spectators, what can be seen through our material. In parallel some of our wife’s are trying to explain that our sun is a star.

Clear sky to you all !
http://astro.aquarellia.com/

Michel Deconinck

•Object Name (Sun and event)
•Object Type (Star !…)
•Location (Varages Provence France)
•Date (2014 March 19th)
•Media (graphite pencil for the sun, ink for the audience, white paper)

The Great VY Canis Majoris

Hello again ASOD! I sketched this one in the same night of the Homunculus. That night i was amazed with the gas and dust of stars. VY Canis Majoris has less surrounding gas but its nice to see the shape of a “Little Homunculus”. Best regards. Leo

•Object Name: VY Canis Majoris.
•Object Type: Red hypergiant star.
•Location: San Miguel, Buenos Aires Argentina.
•Conditions: NELM 4.8-5.1. Good transparency, acceptable seeing. Moonset (Waxing Gibbous).
•Date: 12/01/2014 1:30 am.
•Media: 2H, HB, blend stump and PS.
•Equipment: Meade LB 12″ on equatorial tracking platform. Plossl 6.3mm.

PS: Image of the star: http://imageshack.com/a/img18/5883/d6nf.jpg. Credits to responsible.

Posidonius: a FFC crater

This is a sketch of the crater Posidonius made trought my 6” achromatic refractor (TS Individual 152/900), binoviewer, a pair of 10 mm eyepieces (BCO´s) and Barlow that gave me 330x. The seeing was very poor at the beginning of the session but it was improved until I could get very stable view of this formation.

Posidonius is a beautiful crater that can be classified as a FFC crater (Floor Fractured Crater). It has several fractures on its floor that can be observed with small telescopes, and also the amazing Rima Posidonius, a lava channel that crosses the crater from north to south on the eastern part of the crater. The origin of this kind of FFC´s is controversial but the modern theories suggest that a magmatic intrusion below the crater bulged and fractured the floor.

The complex pattern of the shadows and the variety of characteristics and formations inside Posidonius make this crater a very interesting observation target for any amateur astronomer.

I hope you to enjoy with this sketch.

•Object Name: Posidonius crater
•Object Type: Lunar crater, FFC crater
•Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country)
•Date: 7-3-2014
•Media: graphite pencil on white paper, captured with digital camera and processed with Gimp.

If you wish to read more about this observational report and others, please visit the web of my astronomical group (www.laotramitad.org).

Best regards.

David Sedano

The Smoke Ring

Hey ASOD!

This time I send you my observation of the wellknown planetary M. 57 in Lyra.

The centralstar was not seen in my telescope, but the ring is allways beautiful to see!

The west and the eastern “ends” of the ring was more diffuse, and the northern

part of the ring brighter and sharper. Info on my sketch.

The sketch was made with watercolor crayons on black paper.

Location: Trondheim, Norway.

Best wishes from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

Mooncrater Krieger

Lunat crater Krieger-March 13, 2014 — Lunar crater Krieger-March 13, 2014

Hello friends of the dark side,

Last week we´ve had some good conditions to observe the moon and his fantastic craters. Near the Schröter-Valley I enjoyed the sight of the crater Krieger.

I hope you like it too:

CS Uwe

Object: “Moon”

Object Name: “Crater Krieger”

Telescope: 10″ ACF

Magnification: 18mm Baader Genuine Orthos in Binocular 180x

Date: 13.March 2014

Location: near Tauberbischofsheim Germany

NGC 5907

NGC 5907 Draco
16 ” 180-240x fst:6m3 SQM 21,42
Kreuzleshöhe 1100m, Germany

Double Star STF 1196

Object name: STF 1196
Object type: Double Star
Location: Subiaco (IT) – 13 04 40.5E, 41 55 35.9N
Date: 2014-03-08
Media: graphite pencil

Io’s transit of Jupiter

This was my first time seeing a transit in the Jovian system….
The bands came a little tilted in the first sketch due to change in observing orientation…..

Location: Bangalore, India.
Date: 8-Jan-2014
Time: ~11:40PM…
Media: HB Graphite pencil(Click pencil), Eraser.
Instrument: 130mm f-6.9 Newtonian.

Regards,

Santhosh.

Messier 106 and NGC 4248

Hi ASOD, shipping this sketch of the last observation of the past month. With a good night’s transparency and stability, with many details in M 106 as his arms as S as never could see, but more rewarding was seeing the small companion galaxy NGC 4248 somewhat weak but detected no problems, perhaps the light of the main galaxy eclipse the detail of the small but very surprised.

Best regards.

Object name: Messier 106 & NGC 4248
Object type: Galaxy
Location: Bonilla Cuenca ( spain )
Date: 22 February 2014
Hour: 23:20 < 23:50
Media: graphite pencil, processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: Dobsonian telescope Meade Lightbridge 10'' F/5 Eye piece Ethos 13mm
Magnification 97x True field 1°
Sky conditions: calm wind, good transparency. Temperature -1,3°C / 29,6 F RH 76%

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