Hi Asod! This is the Orion Nebula and M43, sketched by me with my Dobsonian Telescope f/5 10”. I think M42 is the most beautiful object of our sky, i cried when I saw it the first time. So I decided to sketch it; I spent 45 minutes and I used black pencil on White paper, then the sketch was inverted and elaborated at computer. I hope you enjoy it!
Object name: M42 & M43
Object type: Nebula
Location: Copertino (LE), Italy
Date: 2-3-2014, 20:10
Media: Black pencil on white paper, inverted and elaborated at computer
Object Name: C96
Object Type Open Cluster
Location Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 07/11/2013
Media: 2H and 2B pencil. GIMP2 edition.
Intrumental: Binocular Braun 12×50
[Editor’s note: Apologies to all, I mistakenly expanded C96 to say Collinder 96 when first posting. I have now corrected it to be Caldwell 96. J. Perez]
Object Cluster galaxies between Andromedae, Triangulum and Perseus
Location: Bonilla (Cuenca) – Spain. November 2. 2013 – Male 6.0
Media:
– Sketches made torchon with black and white pencil on paper and processed with GIMP.
– New 10” – 80x
Group NGC 1023 is a galaxy cluster late-type ( spiral and irregular ) that are around 10Mpac .
Just below the Milky Way and in one area, we x 10 º 10 º , which occupies part of the constellation Perseus , Andromeda and the Triangle found this cluster of galaxies .
Full members of the cluster :
– NGC 925 ( UGC dominates a subgroup with UGC 1865 and 1924)
– NGC 1023 ( is the principal of the whole cluster and leads another subgroup with NGC 891, NGC 949, NGC 1003, NGC 1058, UGC 2014 , UGC 2034 and UGC 2259 )
– NGC 746 and IC 239.
The amateur who has a tube 8” or 10” and a sky at least one stellar magnitude of 6, can see how little its four brightest members : NGC 1023, NGC 891, NGC 925 and NGC 1058.
Contemplation while these four galaxies of the same cluster and a similar distance , allow us to easily appreciate the different morphological characteristics and the actual importance of the size and mass of each .
Greetings to all visitors of this page.
Pedro Villamiel Gonzalez. Alcorcon, Madrid. November 03.2013
Crater Lambert, Mons La Hire and Dorsum Zirkel – February 9, 2014
Made this sketch of crater Lambert, Mons La Hire and Dorsum Zirkel and surrounding areas this evening, using my 505mm mirror and Watec video camera on its least sensitive setting. The view on the monitor was delightful and one I shared with optical designer and engineer Mr Es Reid of Cambridge, all very civilized and enjoyable.
The sketch was made on black A5 220gm art paper using Conte hard pastels and acrylic paint for bright highlights and deep shadow.
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997), one of the greatest astronomer of the 20th century, died 17 years ago. These two drawings were made in honour of his memory.
* Object Type: planet
* Location: CASTRES (Tarn – France) 43° 36′ 19″ Nord2° 14′ 27″ Est
* Date: 5th February 2014 4hTU
* Media: pencil HB + 2B, white drawing paper, scanned + rescaled + colorized with PhotoPaint
Orientation: north is up
Conditions: 2°C, no wind. 70% humidity
Equipment:
– Dobson Pearl 203mm
– Eyepiece hypérion 5mm Mag 240X
Hello,
After à rainy and mainly cloudy winter ( just some clear nights with poor seeing …) last sunday before the dawn I get some reasonably average condition to observe Mars and to try my first drawing of the 2014 opposition, inspite the small diamètre (10.9″)
Hope many others will follow Emoji and perhaps if best condition occurs with my 22″ dobson
This time I send again a sketch of the unforgetable great comet Hale-Bopp!
The observation was made the time before the fine spiral-bows appeared.
There was a bay of almost dark sky between the two tails.
C/ Hale-Bopp was the finest comet I have seen, and longlasting on the northern sky,
with many fine structures to observe in the inner coma.
I used color-crayons on black paper. Info on my sketch.
Location: Trondheim, Norway.
This year I celebrate 50 years as an amateur-astronomer (65 years old),
and have 330 sketches total!
Thank you for your comments and HAPPY NEW YEAR
from Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Hello here is my submission. This painting started as a sketch. -Greg Wing
Object Name (Rosette Nebula & NGC 2244)
Object Type (Emission Nebula and Open Cluster in the Constellation Monoceros)
Location (Viewed from Landis Arboretum in Esperance, NY. Painting created in my art studio)
Date (January, 2013)
Media (graphite pencil sketch on canvas overlaid with oil paints)
For some time I was only able to observe the beautiful open cluster NGC 2244 which is centrally associated with the Rosette Nebula using my modified 10″ f/4.7 dob. Then using an OIII filter, there it was! This open cluster is so visually stunning that I wanted to preserve its beauty and rather than using a rosey color for painting the nebulosity, I was influenced by the so-called “Hubble Palette”. I try to accurately position the main stars.
My Astro Paintings convey my memory transformed, a mood, an experience that can be seen and renewed with subsequent viewings. Rather than a representation, the painting is an impressions of what I have seen with my telescope, read about and seen in images made with large telescopes. Painting in my studio after observing an object not only gives me something to do on all those cloudy nights, it helps me understand and experience the object further. http://astropaintings.weebly.com
