This diminutive globular is at a distance of 25,000 LY’s, which is 2.5 times farther than M 22, yet, M 22 appears 21x larger through our telescopes! NGC 6642 is not just farther away, but smaller and fainter. My latest blog has details around my observation of M21 & NGC 6642 both well down in the weeds from my 52 deg north home in the UK.
I made this sketch of M51 with a 625mm (25″) dobson in a starparty located in the Margériaz, France.
The seeing was not really good and there was a few high clouds passes during my observation.
Object Name: M51
Object Type: Galaxy
Location: Margériaz, France
Date: 6th July 2013
Media: graphite pencil (3B, 2H and 4H) on 180g white bristol, then Photoshop CS6 for the inversion and stars processing.
Have a nice day
José Rodrigues
Hi, this sketch of open cluster barnard 86 of my last observation. It is a wonderful object, we can enjoy this jewel in the night sky. That day I could enjoy a very stable sky very definition, hitting that day to draw this magnificent object. Undoubtedly one of my favorite dark nebulae. Do not fail to escape this object in your upcoming observations.
regards and good heavens.
Object name: NGC 6520 / Barnard 86
Object type: Open cluster & dark nebula
Location: Bonilla cuenca ( spain )
Date: 5 July 2013
Media: graphite pencil,processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: Dobsonian telescope 10″ F/5 Meade lightbridge , eye piece Explore scientific 18mm 82°
Magnification 70x True field 1,1°
Sky conditions: Moderate windnelm Nelm 5,9 Temperature 23,4°C relative humidity 40% Borthle scale 3/9
Hello!
I’d like to submit my latest sketch for the ASOD. The Object is the Eastern Veil (NGC6922-6955 / IC1340) which I’ve observed with my 18″ f/4,45 homemade Dob. It was done at my observatory in Carù di Villa Minozzo, a small village in the Emilian Apennines of northern Italy on the evening of the 5th of July. Originally I used pencil on white paper and then elaborated it extensively on the pc to make it look as realistically as possible.
Have you ever had one of these drawings you’ve always wanted to make but never got round to it? Well, this one used to be mine. Perhaps I was afraid of the many subtleties, the complexity and the enormous amount of time involved (mostly because having to re-acclimatise my eyes to the dark after every pencil stroke). This nebula is so spectacular with the 2″ binoviewers and a couple of 82° eyepieces. It just didn’t fit in the FOV though and unfortunately I had to find a balance between the “snake’s teeth” (IC1340) and the bright NGC6992 area. It also took me quite some time indeed, but in the end I’m really pleased with the result. I hope you are too.
Kind regards,
Peter
Dear Asod,
I send you here attached my sketch of Jupiter made on 5th November 2011. Although the seeing was not so good I was able to see fine details I have not seen before, so that was a lucky day. I have even seen the colour so I decided to make my sketch with colour pastel pencil.
Equipment used: 130/650 SW, 130x
Date: 4th November 2011
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Media: brown shades of pastel pencils used on white paper.
dr. Hannák Judit
M52: William Optics 110 TMB with TV Ethos 13mm
One clear winter night , I observed / sketched the hills, mountains with smooth out-lines on the lunar horizon that looks like one of that of the [Chile] Andes mountains of our own globe earth.
With no black ink totch on, instead I rubbed sky-blue pastel color on the background sky. ……….
A nearest alien Place swimming across in cosmos … Nobody stepped , breathed for billion years…
Unfortunately, the original 45×28 cm sketch,s left and upside cut down -out as a A4 size in my home scanner.
span on the lunar limb ; 70 km (cutted from 100km)
8″ refractor x500- 950 (high power observing)
aimed place; maybe Belkovich crater or environs
graphite pencils on a paper
date ; 9th, JAN 2012
seeing ; trembling but clear
Object Name M13
Object Type Globular
Location Xyliatos Dam ,Cyprus
Date 29.06.13
Media graphite pencil
Phedias Hadjicharalambous
Hello!
Object type: crater
Location: Nagyvarsány/Hungary
Date: 2011-12-19
Media: white paper and lead pencils (F, 2B, 5B, 8B)
Equipment used: 80/900 Sky-Watcher refractor
MOON – Colongitude: 197,9° – phase: 37,2%
Gassendi is a very nice crater, the walls of ruined, central mountain is small and cracked the bottom of the crater. Typical FFC.
My blog: http://viktorcsehdraws.blogspot.com/
Clear skies! 🙂
Viktor
M 97 Umaj
Instrument: 16 ”
360x
Place: Kreuzleshöhe 1100m, Germany
Time: 14.04.2013
fst: 6m3 SQM 21,60
