Astronomy Sketch of the Day – Page 68 – Drawings and sketches of an astronomical nature

Conjunction: Pluto and Palomar 8

Object Name: Pluto and Palomar 8
Object Type: Planet and globular cluster
Location: Cherry Springs, Pennsylvania
Date: July 17, 2013
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, digitally inverted
Notes: 16″ Newtonian and 8 mm Ethos ocular, 225x. West left (arrow on sketch), north down. Pluto is indicated between two vertical dashes among stars. The nebulosity is the unresolved globular cluster Palomar 8. Sagittarius. The true conjunction was around 0 UT on July 15; the observation was made around 06:00 UT on July 17.

Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC 3628)

Object Name: Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC 3628)
Object Type: Galaxies
Location: Płaza, Poland
Date: 11.03.2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted in Photoshop CS2

In my opinion, Leo Triplet is one of the most beautiful galactic triplet on our sky. In Poland it’s a typical spring constellation. We also have Mars in it at this time.
It was my first try sketching a galaxy, but I’m pretty satisfied with my picture, so I decided to try putting it on ASOD. I hope you like it.

Omega Centauri (NGC 5139)

Aloha,

Out on my deck, too tired to set up the telescope this night, I observed with my 7×35 Nikon binocular instead.
Locating Omega Centauri amongst the trees was a treat, particularly since there was a lovely asterism of 6th & 7th magnitude stars beneath it that look like the Big Dipper with a curved tail.

Object: Omega Centauri, NGC 5139
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: ~4,000 elevation, Maui, Hawaii
Date: 4/17/12, 10:35pm
Media: White paper & pencil. Inverted with Photoscape

Comet West

Hey sketchers!

This time I send you an old but interesting observation of a break-up of
nucleus in three parts. This was the bright and splended comet West (1976).
In 50x magn., I could only see a streak in the bright coma, but with power of
166x, I could see the splitting parts of 7. to 8. mag.. Info on the sketch.
I look foreward to comet ISON, but I hope it will survive the perihel!!

location: Trondheim, Norway.
I used watercolor crayons on black paper.

Best wishes and clear sky from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

Messier 19

Pedro Villamiel. New 10”. 80x.

• Object Name: M 19 (NGC 6273)

• Object Type: Globular Cluster

• Location: Pelayos de la Presa – Spain

• Date: 14/07/2013

• Media: Graphite Pencil HB 2 torchon drawing sheet 1 and 130g

• inverted colors with GIMP 2.8

Observation notes:

Male 5,6 Height obj.20° to 25 °

(1) Identification: Easy. Be recognized in the form of 9x as a bright blur. With letters from mag. 6.5 slow 3 min.

(2) Brightness: Bright. Wide central dense and grainy soft descending into a speckled halo.

(3) Size: Large.

(4) Form: Both the densest as all show an oval shape.

(Five) Trait remarkable: The stretch in your form is very rare, on CG.

(6) Field: rich stellar field, double star 80 ‘. Two orders of magnitude. Very clear zone of stars around the GC.

(7) Better vision: With 110x shows a dense and brilliant oval center surrounded by a beautiful crown of fine sheen dotted

Greetings to all visitors of this page.

Pedro Villamiel. Alcorcon, Madrid. 14/07/2013

NGC 4027, 4038-4039

Object: NGC 4027 (GX, Crv)
Date: 07./08. 06. 2013.
UT.: 19h58m – 20h16m
Equipment: 400/1800 Skywatcher Dobsonian-reflector
Mag.: 200x
FOV: 17’
S = 7 / 10 T = 5 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya (Hungary)
Location: Farm Isabis – Red house (Namibia)

Object: NGC 4038-4039 (GX, Crv)
Date: 06./07. 06. 2013.
UT.: 22h58m – 23h21m
Equipment: 400/1800 Skywatcher Dobsonian-reflector
Mag.: 300x
FOV: 11’
S = 7 / 10 T = 5 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya (Hungary)
Location: Farm Isabis – Red house (Namibia)

Green Ray

Hello

un chapelet d’apparition du rayon vert, à la L80x60, Nouméa.
Crayon graphite et colorisation logiciel retouche d’image.

Cordialement

pour info : le livre “ASTRODESSIN, Observation & dessins en astronomie” est achevé, après 3 ans de travail en équipe. 560 pages, 2 volumes, à parraître en novembre 2013.

Serge

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English Translation via Google Translate:

Hello

Appearance of a string of green ray, the L80x60, Noumea.
Graphite pencil and coloring image editing software.

Regards

FYI: the book “ASTRODESSIN, Observation & drawings astronomy” was completed after three years of working as a team. 560 pages, 2 volumes, parraître in November 2013.

Serge

Messier 31

Object Name: M31 Andromeda Galaxy
Object Type:Spiral Galaxy
Location: Neyshabur, Khorasan Razavi, Iran at 36°14’15.38″N
58°48’34.51″E
Date: July 29th, 2012
Media: White paper,Graphite pencil, inverted the colors whit Photoshop
Time:1:01 Am until 1:16 AM
Wheather Conditions: Clear Sky, with lots of light pollution from
houses and street lanterns.
Equipment: Refracting Telescope 100mm, 25mm Ocular lens

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Mina Soleymanian

The Butterfly Cluster

Object Name: M6 Butterfly Cluster

Object Type: Open Cluster

Location: Alcala de Guadaira (Spain)

Description

M6 is an open cluster in the constellation of Scorpius. It is a young cluster formed by blue stars very near the galactic plane. The estimated distance is about 1,600 ly.

Its shape resembles a butterfly: Several bright stars form two attached rhombi, what correspond to the insect body on which you also find a delicate pattern made of weak stars. Several curved lines and double stars complete one of the most beautiful summer open cluster.

Date and Time: 2013-07-05, 23:30 GMT

Telescope: Mak 102/1300 f13, Ocular: 21 mm (62x), left-right inverted view. Seeing: 3-4/5. Magnitude limit: 10,6.

Media: Graphite pencil on white paper, inverted.

More details:

http://www.nochestrellada.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/m6-el-cumulo-mariposa.html

Best regards,

Jaime

Markarian’s Chain

Object Name: Markarian’s Chain
Object Type: Galaxy Cluster
Location: Sketched at a dark sky sight in Wiltshire, UK
Date: 5th May 2013; 23:30; conditions – very good
Media (graphite pencil sketch at the scope and then digitized using graphics tablet and Photoshop)

I usually sketch in some detail at the scope (mainly HB and 2B). I then scanned the result into Photoshop and sharpened the sketch. I annotated the galaxies.
For this sketch I used a Nexstar 8SE teamed with a WO 32mm wide field of view eyepiece. The sketch occupied two eyepiece field of views plus a bit of edge fills for some surrounding stars.

Observing Details

I have wanted to sketch this cluster for a very long time but needed to travel out into a dark sky site to have a chance. M84 and M86 were very noticeable but, with the help of a star chart I was pleased to spot many more than can be seen from my back garden, although NGC 4413 required averted vision.

Hope you enjoy,

Clear Skies

Chris Lee