Hello !
Messier 33
Spiral galaxy
Forêt de la Joux, Jura, France
3/12/2013
HB and 3B graphite pencil
12″ F/4 Orion Optics dobsonian
Eyepieces : Ethos 10mm, Nagler 16mm
Regards,
Nicolas Zannin
Messier 33
Meeting with a Green Comet
Hi,
In attachment you can find sketch of comet C2013/R1 Lovejoy
Short description:
Object Name C2013/R1 Lovejoy
Object Type comet
Location Budy Dłutowskie – small village in central Poland
Date 02.12.2013
Media graphite pencil, white paper, color invert
Telescope Sky Watcher refractor 120/600 + Meade 8,8mm + Lumicon Swan Band
Seeing 2/5 (good)
Transparency 2/5 (good)
NELM 5,4 mag
We don’t have so many good weather in Poland last weeks. So when I realised that night from 2nd to 3rd of December will be good I decided to wake up early morning to observe comet C2013/R1 Lovejoy. And it was really good observation night. Comet looks great. It is visible even with naked eye. When you use binocular, you can observe really condensed core with delicate tail. With “stronger” telescope you can see the green colour of the comet and bigger part of really long tail.
I used SW 120/600 refracotr with special comet filter Lumicon Swan Band mounted on Meade UWA 8,8mm eyepiece. It is really good filter designed to see details in gasous comets even in weak sky conditions. When you use this filter sky background is really dark and comet shine stongly with high contrast. It is also possible to see delicate structures inside the tail (close to head).
If you dudn’t see this comet, you must try it. It is really worth to observe.
Clear Sky
Łukasz
NGC 266
Good afternoon fellow Webbies 🙂
I have attached a sketch of delightful barred spiral NGC 266 in Pisces that I made on Saturday night using my 20″ F3.7 reflector. This is the first sketch with the Watec video camera placed at prime focus, a modification designed and engineered by the redoubtable Mr Es Reid.
As helped me set up and collimate the rig and then stayed on for this stunning observation. The tiny companion galaxy that can be seen at 2 O’clock is mag 16.4 PGC 212604.
I hope you like this gem and feel encouraged to take a look yourselves 😉
Clear skies to us all, Dale
Do you want to know more about my interest in astronomy? If so take a look at my Website: http://www.chippingdaleobservatory.com/
Keep up to date with observations from Chippingdale Observatory by reading the Blog http://chippingdaleobservatory.com/blog/
C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) – December 3, 2013
Hello sketchers,
Object Name (C/2013 R1 – Lovejoy)
Object Type (comet)
Location (Provence France)
Date (3/12/2013)
Media (watercolor on paper 65cm/25cm)
This very morning, early, from Néoules, a nice dark sky area, I made 5 sketches with :
a 80/400mm refractor (10x) for the large field and the long tail,
a Dobson 12”, 58x and 150x for the coma around the nucleus
and a 102/1000 refractor (25x and 100x) for the intermediate view.
I used miscellaneous EP from 40mm to 10mm Delos, sometime with UHC filter.
I made this watercolor today 3 December at home, the idea was to put together the different magnifications on a single view.
Oh yes, something funny, to sketch the tail, I used a light sand paper to take away the pigment from place to place; this sand feels like real comet dust : scale 1/1…
Clear sky to you all !
Michel Deconinck
http://astro.aquarellia.com/
Moon in Acrylic and Ink
Object Name (Moon)
Object Type (Satellite)
Location (Gołkowice,Silesia/Poland)
Date (5 grudnia 2012)
Media (White/black acrylic/black ink/)
Add info:
The painting was made when i bought my first telescope (70/900 skylux) and i was very delighted with the beauty of the moon. So I study it for couple of nights, and with a bit of help of moon photos from the internet and map with the moon i painted two moon’s. This is the first one. And it took me two weeks to complete it fully.
size”120x80cm
best regards Przemo
The Art of Line
Hi everyone!
I observed M34 in Nov. midnight with my 15″ Dob.
The center of M34 has big & bright ‘Y’ shape, and many lines follow the ‘Y’!
It is very impressive and huge.
I drew all of the stars in my eyepiece through two nights.
But I couldn’t express M34 perpectly..
Who makes this fantastic star chains?
God? or My eyes? 🙂
Object Name : M34
Object Type : Open Cluster
Location : S. Korea
Date : Nov. 11, 2013
Media : Black paper, Jelly pen, Pastel pencil
Comète C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) – November 28, 2013
Bonjour,
Voici un dessin de la comète Lovejoy, réaliser avec un dobson de 345mm et un oculaire de 40mm (grossissement 37 fois).
Elle est sublime ! Le noyau très ponctuel et bien brillant. La queue est large et fait au moins 2° de long.
Le ciel était stable.
Fait à Fayssac dans le sud de la France le 28 novembre 2013 à 5h20 Local. Club d’astronomie APAM.
David Antao
French-English translation by Google Translate:
Hello,
Here is a drawing of comet Lovejoy, achieved with a dobson of 345mm and a 40mm eyepiece (magnification 37 times).
It is sublime! Very punctual and very bright nucleus. The tail is made wide and at least 2° long.
The sky was stable.
Fayssac made in the south of France November 28, 2013 at 5:20 Local. Astronomy Club APAM.
David Antao
C/2012 S1 (ISON) – November 20, 2013
Object Name : C/2012 S1 ISON
Object Type : comet
Location : Béziers, south-west France
Date : November 20 2013
Media : graphite pencil, white paper + PhotoPaint
Comments :
The moon was almost full, the sky was not dark enough, so the tail was shade off and fairly not visible.
Only a bright star could be seen in this area.
The turquoise colour of ISON comet was (R.I.P.) very nice, with a very bright dot as shown on the skectch.
Equipment : 300mm Telescope + 24mm Ultra Wide Angle eyepiece
Sketch was made with pencil on white paper while observing the comet on the road side before sunrise.
A bit of image processing was used to invert the image and give it some colour.
Jean-Marc SALIOU
A.P.A.M. astronomy
http://www.astrosurf.com/apam
Jupiter and Europa
On Friday evening after setting up to observe, I could see sky conditions would be better than average for this time of year( late fall).
When Jupiter climbed to more than 60 degrees above the horizon, I realized that this would be the night to make a first sketch of Jupiter for the season.
The GRS was redder than last season especially in its center and was well set apart from both the South Tropical Zone and South Equatorial Belt. Europa had just emerged from behind the North Tropical Zone on the following side of the planet. A couple of festoons could be clearly seen in the Equatorial Zone emerging from the North Equatorial Belt.
It was right at my tolerable cold temperature limit for sketching and I finished before needing to retreat indoors to warm up.
On a steady night of good seeing this is the time to give Jupiter a look.
Equipment Used: 13.1 inch f/6 Dobsonian running on an equatorial platform 6mm eyepiece (333x) and Baader Neodymium filter
Sketching: Assorted graphite pencils, medium hard charcoal pencils, erasers, blending stumps,
white copy paper
Seeing: Pickering 7/10
Transparency : Average 3/5
Temperature: 21°F (-6°C)
Jupiter: Visual mag. -2.6, Diameter 44.65 “, illumination 99.6%, distance from earth 4.4 au
Frank McCabe
M42 from Mar del Plata
Object Name: Orion Nebula – M42 – NGC 1976
Object Type: Nebula
Location: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 29/11/2013 – 21:30
Media: Digital Tools (Photoshop CS6)
This is my drawing of the Orion Nebula. In Mar del Plata, the sky have light pollution in some places, but I could see something.
I have a reflector telescope Sky-Watcher 114/900 (4,5″) EQ2 with an eyepiece Super 10 mm. I had a good seeing with a good transparency.
Thanks!