Daytime Crescent of Venus

Venus - November 30, 2013
Venus – November 30, 2013

Object: Venus
Type: Planet
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador 89° 13′ W 13°43′ N
Date: November 30th 2013
Media: Adobe Ideas for iOS on iPhone

I decided to look up Venus while there was daylight, as I hoped that the atmosphere would act as a filter for the constant glare I’d always observed when I pointed my binoculars to Venus. It was as I expected! Venus showed its current phase clearly, albeit in a minute form: I even think the FOV in my sketch is exaggerated a little bit. The inset image shows a “close-up” about how I distinguished the planet’s image; I tried to represent the glare Venus’s brightness created on my optics.

Hope and Elegance in Lynx

NGC 2683
NGC 2683

Hi! to the community, sending a sketch of the last observation turned nice. This galaxy can be found in the constellation Lynx near Alpha. It is a very bright galaxy by its surface brightness 12.9 resulted in my wonderful scope for the great amount of detail offered, was not at its highest point in the sky but it was no problem. It seems that at the bottom below the elongated core could see a faint dark area running along the core from side to side, someone detect this subtle detail?

Soon ends the year and my wish for you, follow every day sharing our hobby with others like the first day without losing hope in these difficult times, having clear and transparent skies to continue sketching.

Greetings.

Roberto.

Object name: NGC 2683
Object type: Galaxy
Location: Bonilla Cuenca ( spain )
Date: 1 December 2013
Hour: 1:00 < 1:30
Media: graphite pencil, processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: Dobsonian telescope Meade Lightbridge 10'' F/5 Eye piece Ethos 8mm
Magnification 159x True field 0,6°

http://dibujodelcielonocturno.blogspot.com.es/ web site

Galaxy NGC 1023

NGC 1023
NGC 1023

Object Name: NGC 1023
Location: RA: 02h 40m 24.0s, Dec: +39 ° 03 ’48 ”
Magnitude 10
Surface brightness 12.9
Dimensions: 8.7’ x 3.0’
Constellation: Perseus
Type: Galaxy (SBO) .
Observing Location: Bonilla. Cuenca. SPAIN
Date: November 2, 2013.
Time: 23:45 T.U.
Material used: graphite pencil on white paper. Inverted image and processed with Photoshop.
Telescope: Celestron S/C 8″ Mount Cgt-5
Eyepiece: Nagler 20 mm 82°; Magnification: 100x.
Conditions: NEML: 6.13 (Zone 6 Peg.) Temp. 5º C. Humidity 73%

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