Object Name Jupiter
Object Type planet
Location Hungary, Göd
Date 08-02-2013 UT 17 30
Media graphite pencil, white black paper
Equipment: MC 127/1500
Eyepieces: Baader Hyperion
magn: 166x and 122x
Filters: green (500 nm) and blue (470 nm)
Conditions: -1 deg.
Seeing & clarity: cloudy sky
Left 166x and green filter
Right 122x and blue filter
After observing Saturn early on the morning of 4th February, I shifted my C11 telescope to the Moon.
The 60km diameter crater Bullialdus was prominent in Mare Nubium, with stark shadows and multiple central peaks showing in this illumination. After a quick pencil sketch, I took a photograph and some time later sketched the scene, using soft pastels on white paper.
North is to the top. The two craters below Bullialdus in the centre are Bullialdus A and B respectively. Above and to the left is the large flooded crater Lubiniezky .
It was worth the effort getting up at 4am to take advantage of the excellent seeing conditions and a phase of the moon I don’t often observe.
Details:
Crater Bullialdus in Mare Nubium, C11 (280mm SCT, 2.5x Barlow)
Adelaide, South Australia, February 4th 2013, 5:00 am local time.
Soft pastels on white paper.
-Ivan
Here join my last watercolour
Object Name (Mars and Mercury)
Object Type (Planet conjunction)
Location (Sainte-Anastasie-sur-Issole, Provence, France)
Date (08-02-2013)
Media (watercolour)
This February 8th between 17h and 18h (UT) I wanted to watch an unusual planets conjunction and set, Mars and Mercury separated by only 15 ‘. This could be seen through the long and wide belt of Venus. I found a peak of 360° free to obstacles – 500 meter altitude. North we see clearly two winter sports resorts and South the Porquerolles Island and its lighthouse – 2 x 10 sec, so… the “M” morse letter, to celebrate our two planets M.. ?
It was cold with a strong wind, I still observed one hour. Some pictures with my little camera and two quick sketches, a complete landscape and an eyepiece vision, in order to be ready to make a watercolour, the day after.
Mercury was bright, clearly visible with a white light. Mars was 8 times less light but very red. No details with my reflector 100/500, plus an eyepiece K12mm. We can just imagine the disc-shaped appearance of the two planets. Mercury was gibbous almost full and very close the tiny and still red planet.
Clear sky to you all !
Michel Deconinck
http://www.aquarellia.com
Hallo!
This is my last sketch of Saturn.
Object: Saturn
Equipment: SCT 5″
Eyepieces: TS Expanse 8mm / NED 8mm
Filters: Moon & Skyglow,
Date: March 23rd, 2012
Place: Warsaw, Poland
Conditions: Clear skies, light wind.
Seeing & clarity: Unstable. Sometimes bad, sometimes very good.
Greetings!
Aleksander (Wimmer)
http://astro-art.com.pl
Hey ASOD- friends!
I send you one of the northern sky beautiful GC, M. 15! I used pen (ink) for the stars on white paper and inverted.
The observation was made from outside Trondheim, Norway. I look foreward to comet Panstarrs and expecially C/ ISON which perhaps will become a comet of the historic class! Then I will make some up-to-date sketches!
Best wishes to all observers and good luck !!
Per-Jonny Bremseth
Mare Crisium – Hover mouse over image to view labels
Mare Crisium is that interesting isolated sea on the northeastern side of the visible lunar surface. Not long before beginning the sketch, it became fully illuminated.
The Nectarian Period impact event that formed this feature occurred more than 3.8 billion years ago. The mare portion of the basin is about 500 kilometers across. In the grazing sunlight on the floor, wrinkled ridges were visible. Also on the western floor craters Picard (24 km.), Peirce (19 km.) and Swift (11km.) stood out in the low light. I could see the lighter gray bench lava that partly buried craters here such as Yerkes (37 km.). Tall flat top mountains (massifs) beyond the shore stand at 2-5 kilometers above the sea. Both promontoria Lavinium and Olivium stood out clearly in very brief moments.
Sketching:
For this sketch I used: 400 series black Strathmore Artagain paper 9″x 9″, white and black Conte’
pastel pencils , and Conte’crayons, a blending stump, plastic eraser.
Telescope: 13.1 inch f/ 6 Dobsonian with 6mm (332x)
Date: 2-13 & 14-2013 23:00 – 00:45 UT
Temperature: 1.7°C (35°F)
Weather: clear, calm
Seeing: not good Antoniadi IV
Co longitude: 310.9°
Lunation: 3.69 days
Illumination: 15.7%
Frank McCabe
Hello folks, [October 28] was very, very cold but the Moon with his Glory looks wonderful, so I thought that I must to draw it:)
Date: 28.10.2012, ~20:00-20:40UT
Location: Bełchatów, Poland
Object: 98% Moon
Weather: High Fog but seeing was very good
I used watercolor crayon on black paper
Thank You!
Clear Skies!
Damian Kępiński
NGC2022
Object Type: Planetary Nebula
Location: Barcelona – Spain
Dark skies are necessary, but this planetary nebula in Orion is a great object. Complicated, but grateful.
For more details of my observation you can visit my blog:
http://laorilladelcosmos.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/ngc2022-nebulosa-planetaria-en-orion.html
Date and Time: 2013-01-04, 21h 49m UT
Telescope: SC Celestron 9.25″ (235mm)
Eyepiece: Radian 10mm (235x)
White paper, HB2 graphite pencil, and scanned and inverted with Photoshop
Seeing: 3/5 (5 the best)
Transparency: Clear. Rural Skies.
Location Constellation: Orion
Position: R.A. 05h 42m
Dec. +09° 05′
Thank you and best regards.
Oscar
Hi. I am happy to send my ‘M35′ sketch to you.
Object Name : M35
Object Type : Open Cluster in Gemini
Location : But-gogae Yangdong-myeon Yangpyeong-gun Gyeonggi-do South.KOREA)
Date : 2013.2.11 Monday
Media : A4 paper, HB pencil
Equipment : 10’ dobsonian, XW 20mm
Observing conditions : A little cloudy
I could identify starchains but, could not define the NGC 2158(Probably the sky is not clear much)
Spent 1hour to sketch, 19:40 ~ 20:00
thank you.
Hello nightwatchers,
after long time I sketched a brighter m-objekt. M45 was very nice in my TMB 115/805. The refractor shows me in the wide field all the nice stars of this object.
It was very hard work at the 36mm eyepiece and I´ve got some problems to fix the distances and the ratio of the stars.
When I finished my first sketch, I forgot to transfer three stars in this picture. But now it´s done and a sketch will be a sketch, not a photo. Hope it´s o.k.
CS Uwe
