Title: Arzachel crater
My name: Silvia Fabi
Object name: Arzachel crater
Object type: crater
Location: Ferrara
Date: 18/02/2013
Media: 6B and 2B pencil
Seeing: I/II (Antoniadi scale)
Description: this crater is deep 3,6 Km and it has a diameter of 96 Km. It is near the craters Alphonsus and Ptolemaeus and is one of the most important crater of the moon.
Object Name: Venus
Object Type: Planet
Telescope: Synta SW 8″ + GSO #15A Filter
Location: Płaza, Poland
Date: 27.01.2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, photoshop cs2, inverted
Hello everyone. This is my newest sketch of one of our Solar System planets. I mean Venus as you can see on the picture. This is very bright and beautiful object on the night sky, but it is also quite hard to observing. Apart from this, sometimes we can see a clouds on Venus. When I was sketching it, I saw something a little bit darker than the rest of the planet and I think that it could be that clouds.
What about sky conditions? I can evaluate the seeing at 7/10, the visibility was very good, but the temperature was very low, about -20 Celsius degrees. But there is something amazing when you are sitting next to the telescope, looking at objects that are very far away when your fingers seems to be already frozen 😀
Object: NGC 2146 (GX, Cam)
Date: 18./19. October 2011.
UT.: 19h08m-19h23m
Equipment: 305/1525 Dobsonian telescope
Mag.: 218x
FOV: 12’
S = 3 / 10 T = 4 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya
Location: Sükösd, Hungary
Object Name: M42- Trapezium
Object Type: Nebula
Constellation: Orion
Location: Fredericksburg, Texas
Date: 02/07/13
Time: 21:20 CST
Conditions: Clear; Breezy
Seeing: 3/5; Transparency: 4/5
Equipment: 280mm SCT, 12.5mm EP
Power: 224x
FOV: 12′
Medium: Graphite pencil and Blending Stump on white paper. Photographed and color inverted.
I know this is a popular object. It’s beautiful in just about any telescope even from a light polluted area. But from a dark sky site (near 7 mag) like the one I was at it is unbelievable. So rich in nebulosity my sketch barely does it justice. At about 1400 light years and a diameter of some 24 light years this stellar nursery is fascinating! I have read that, besides being one of the closest star forming regions, the brightest stars and the youngest ones may be only 100,000 years old. I never tire of observing the Great Nebula!!!!
John E.
Date: 2013. 2. 16
12 inch refractor f/10 dkd lens w/home-made altas-mount
x330- x1400
Location: backyard home in S. Korea
media: pastel on paper
seeing: bad
hello asod, sent this sketch of the last observation. This open cluster has something special and reminiscent of 37 resulting in a spectacular asterism.This day the moon was present and disappeared before midnight, but did not stop at all observe this interesting deep sky object.greetings and thanks.
Object name: ngc 2169
Object type: open cluster
Location: bonilla cuenca ( spain )
Date: 14 february 2013
Media: graphite pencil,processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: dobsonian telescope 10″ meade lightbridge,eye piece explore scientific 14mm 82°
magnification 90x true field 0,9°
Sky conditions: Clear Calm,16% moon.nelm 5,4. Temperature 2,6°C relative humidity 70% borthle scale.
Hello Stargazers,
this is the first time I send one of my sketch to you. Since the beginning of the year, it’s real terrible, cloudy weather here in Germany. One chance was on February the 10th, the sky was pretty transparent with less turbulences. The temperature was frosty, about minus six degrees Celsius. Sitting in a sheltered corner of my garden, the 12 inch dob offers me the beauty of the gas giant.
Object Name: Jupiter
Object Type: Planet
Location: Schwanfeld, Germany
Date: 10th February 2013
Media: graphite pencil on white standard paper
Hope you like it.
Starry regards.
Florian Köhler
Object Name: Moon landscape
Object Type Lunar Craters
Location Montreal, Canada
Date November 2, 2011
Media Pastel, black paper.
Here is a sketch I made on the 2nd of November between 21 :00 and 21:45 (local time in Montreal). Overlapping the terminator line, craters Hipparchus and Albategnius put on a nice show that evening. The high contrast of the landscape was propitious for a pastel sketch at the telescope. As the sun rose on the higher mountains and crater’s edge, the interplay between light and darkness slowly unveiled new features on the moon surface. I captured an incomplete “X” at the upper right.
The sketch was scanned and the legend was added with Photoshop. The sketch however has not been “retouched”. I present it as it was at the end of the session.
Jean Barbeau
Object Name: NGC 1169 in Perseus
Object Type: Galaxy Type Sb/SBb
Location: West Desert, Rush Valley, Utah
Date: November 6 2012
Time: 03:12 UT
Seeing: Antoniadi II
V. Mag: 11.6
Surface Brightness: 14.1
Size: 4.2’ x 2.8’
Scope: 14”Dobstuff with Zambuto mirror
Eyepiece: 10m Pentax XW w/Type I Paracorr (white lettering).
Media: Black Paper with chalk pastel (Mellish Method)
I’ve decided instead of jumping all around to return to the Herschel 400 II to complete that list as my new scope is now done being built. I’m still learning the nuisances of the scope but I need the clouds to get out of the way more at new moon! The galaxy is pretty bright but it is small. Using averted vision shows a faint halo. The core is very bright and there is a 13 to 13.5 mag star (estimated) on the southwest side of the core, rather super-imposed on it.
This sketch is dedicated to the late StepDad of Phil or City-Kid over at CloudyNights who passed away in late October. JC Miller was very interested in astronomy. May his light continue to reach his family and friends though out their lives as the light from objects above continue to reach each of us who look for them.
hi, we ‘re facing another long period with really bad conditions for our hobby, here in Belgium. We exactly had 2 clear nights in the past 3 months. No good at all. But we were lucky yesterday. Clear skies and … exactly when Werner’s X is about to appear. Half past ten PM (22u33) local time, the X appeared slowly. The sketch was made with Conté pastel on black paper.
Equipment used: Tele Vue 101 SDF on Tele Vue Gibraltar mount. Indeed the way Steven O’Meara used to work for his books. Tele Vue Nagler Zoom 3-6mm. No filters used.
Thanks,
/Erik
