Object Name : NGC 3372
Object Type: Nebula
Location: Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instrumental: Binocular Braun 12×50
Date: 04/01/2014
Media: graphite pencil 2H and 2B, white paper, edited with GIMP2
Hi everyone! This was the first sketch I made in the year. It was a wonderful dark night, the weather was nice and the Carina constellation was in an ideal elevation to observe it through what i call “my little sky window”, that is, my 12×50 binoculars. I always enjoy a lot the whole area of Argos which I think is the most impressive in binoculars. Thank you so much!!!!
Moon crater ” Hevelius ” … a marginal phenomenon !
Hello,
even though we had already almost full moon, I wanted to take advantage of the clear weather. 21.00 clock then I moved my MON 2 with the TMB manually on our cosmic neighbor.
Since stabbed veeery on the edge out a very pretty crater group. The air was relatively quiet and the 6mm Ortho at about 133x I was excited about the harsh contrasts around the impact site and the shadow boundary. I quickly got my sketch pad and pencils to capture the scene.
That it was the crater Hevelius ( about 100km in diameter) , I had to investigate . I found something in my Moon Atlas from the 60s and in the virtual Moon Atlas . Cavalerius is the second largest crater in the group with about 60km and the crater Lohrmann with about 30km rounded out the picture.
Hernan “Moska” Garcia
Llavallol, Buenos Aires, Argentina ( 34°47’34.77″S 58°25’34.73″O)
14 de Diciembre de 2013 – 14:36 Hrs
Clima: Despejado
Equipo: Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P NEQ3
Oculares: Sky-Watcher UWA TMB II Design 3.2 mm – StarGuider BST Explorer Dual ED 18 mm
Filtro: Filtro Solar Baader 150 mm
In looking at the upcoming forecast, I decided to take advantage of a semi-clear and warm night to sketch another observation. It took a bit of star-hopping to find the cascade… mainly drawing lines between Auriga to Perseus to Cassiopeia and back again, but once it was in my field of view, there was no mistaking Kemble’s Cascade.
Object: Kemble’s Cascade in constellation Camelopardalis
Date: January 4th, 2014 – 9:15 – 10:15pm CT
Location: New Braunfels, Texas – back yard
Conditions: 56°F, partially hazy, some clouds
Instruments: 10×50 Wide-Angle Binoculars
Medium: Graphite on white sketch paper, inverted
(see the original sketch)
Object Name (Geminids)
Object Type (Meteor shower )
Location (Provence France)
Date (14 dec 2013)
Media (graphite pencil, watercolor, white paper, digital inversion )
From 4UT just after the moonset, I was observing one hour looking around the Leo area.
I begin to sketch the sky region where I was looking, +/- 45° from the radiant. We can see the Leo and the red Mars underneath.
Each time a meteor was burning out I put the trace on my white paper link with the estimated magnitude. Let says one minute after, because already years ago, I realized that sometime a meteor is following shortly by another one, just on the same track, like a double meteor. This morning I saw 42 Geminids and 2 sporadic’s, I don’t sketch the sporadic meteor here. The speed was quite low and the magnitudes quite brilliant.
The small village where I’m don’t care about light pollution, ok then, I use this to sketch the Christmas street decoration like it is.
Here follows my result of the watch,
December 14, 2013 (Val d’Issole, France)
Longitude 006 degrees 05′ 25″ East,
Latitude 43 degrees 18′ 15″ North.
UT Period Field Teff LM GEM SPO
4:00-5:05 60SSE 1.00 5.20 42 2
Object name: Venus
Object Type: Planet
Location: Lochem, The Netherlands.
Date: january 12th, 2014
Media: The sketch was created using Photoshop Elements 6.
Comments:
Sunday in the afternoon I got the chance to find Venus 5 degrees above the sun!
The planet was visible as a small white arc.
I used a 8” Dobsonian telescope equipped with a 27 mm Panoptic eyepiece, that yielded 50x.
Location: Lochem, The Netherlands.
After a few minutes I switched to the 10 mm Delos, 135x.
Then I observed and waited for moments of relatively calm air.
These moments came and on then I was sure that the arc closed completely around the disk.
Adding to that I was also convinced that I saw the famous “Ashen Light”.
A controversial effect because how can the backside of Venus be visible in a daylight sky?.
Object Name: NGC5139-NGC104-M13
Object Type: globular clusters
Location: Namibia
Date: August, 2nd 2013
Media: graphite pencil for the initial draft then scan and digital work for the final sketch.
Instrument: Home-made 14″ travel-scope, F/D 5, dobsonian. Eyepiece 20mm Plössl. Field 34′.
Observing conditions: Slight turbulence, good transparency, no light pollution.
Comment:
Under the wonderful sky of Namibian desert, one of the dryest and darkest of the world, I’ve foolishly decided to draw the 3 big.
Scaring idea for a sketcher, as the globular clusters are known for being undrawable. Obviously the idea was not to spot each star, but only to make a rendering comparison of these 3 big, mainly interesting for northern observers who have not often the possibility to look at those famous southern globular clusters in Centauri and Tucanae constellations. With the same instrument, the same night and the same duration of the observation (half an hour each), Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae are bright and deeply resolved, whereas the Herculis cluster looks like a fuzzy patch of light grains. Poor dethroned cluster!
Hope it tickles your traveller spirit!
I wish ASOD’s team a happy new year and clear skys!
At last a chance has come over these holidays to do some observing. Top of my list is Wolfgang’s Webb Society object of the season , Bi-polar reflection nebula in Orion, NGC 2163, not even listed in the Keppler & Sanner bible!
In the last hour I picked the nebula up readily enough by star hoping to the target but had to keep the exposure time of the video camera shorter than usual due to the residual breeze. That said I’m pleased with the result, it is an interesting object and a first observation for me. Appearing as a bow tie N-S in position there are a couple of dark notches visible and a short dust lane in the lower lobe in my sketch. I hope other member get sketches and images too.
I finally got to go bush with my latest scope acquisition, and my smallest scope, a 4” achro refractor. I was spoilt for choice for potential targets, but I settled on one target I’ve sketched four times previously, Eta Carina. The previous sketches of Eta Carina were done with an 8” (once) and my 17.5” (twice) and once with my binos from my home. But this time, I had the opportunity to chase the full extent of the visible nebulosity of this celestial giant. With the single eyepiece I took on this outing, this little refractor gives me a whopping TFOV of 5°! This would be the perfect weapon and dark sky combination to tackle this target.
Oh my goodness! How much detail is visible! At first glance the nebulosity is nice and compact. As the sketch developed, and I slowly examined the scene, the nebulosity kept on reaching further and further out. Add to this the mottling of the background Milky Way star field that surrounds Eta Carina. I also spotted a couple of faint open clusters in the field of view.
The sketch doesn’t show the full extent of the TFOV – the sheet of paper wasn’t big enough! I was spent after this too.
I hope you find this sketch to your liking.
Alex.
Object: Eta Carina, NGC 3372
Scope: 4” f/5 refractor
Gear: 30mm Explore Scientific 82°, 17X, plus OIII filter
Date: 3rd January 2014
Location: Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Media: White soft pastel, charcoal and white ink on A4 size black paper.
