Hi, I send my sketch of NGC 6934. This is a spherical cluster of stars located in the constellation of Dolphin. Currently, the best conditions observation-object is located high in the sky. My telescope with 200mm aperture hardly ojedyncze showed barely visible stars.
Thanks
Object name: NGC 6934
Location: Psary in POLAND
Date: 17th August 2012
Instrument: Newton 200/1200
Power: 150x, eypiece BST 8mm
Media: White paper and pencil 2B
[An excerpt from Dale Holt’s blog: Chippingdaleobservatory Blog ]
…I pushed onto the great Orion nebula, just intending to take a look but ended up once again trying to be artistic in a rendering of M43 the little brother to the much better known M42, to me this nebula is a ‘morsel’ about to be swallowed by the Angel fish that is M42 the great Orion Nebula. Putting dazzling M42 just out of the field to avoid its distraction one could view this nebula as a standalone and appreciate its form and the intricate darker regions and lanes that bisect it. When I showed my pastel sketch to friend Es Reid the next day, flatteringly he referred to it as like an ‘impressionist’s painting’ that will do for me 🙂
Object Name: NGC 1980
Location: RA: 05h 35m 25.9s, Dec: -05 ° 54 ’35 ”
Magnitude: 2.5
Dimensions: 14′ x 14’
Constellation: Orion
Type: Open Cluster associated with nebulosity.
Observing Location: Bonilla. Cuenca. SPAIN
Date: December 9, 2012.
Time: 23:15 T.U.
Material used: Graphite pencil on white paper. Inverted image and processed with Photoshop.
Celestron Telescope S / C 8″ Mount Cgt-5
Eyepiece: Hyperion Aspheric 31 mm; Magnification: 65x.
Conditions: NEML: 6.13 (Zone 6 Peg.) Temp.: 0.4°C; Humidity 68%.
More information: http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com.es/
2012 08 16, 0400 UT
NGC7354/PK 107+2.1 (4+3b)/H II-705
Planetary nebula in the constellation Cepheus, 22h 40.4m, +61deg17´, 0>20´, m12.9v
Erika Rix – Liberty Hill, Texas
www.pcwobservatory.com
16” Zhumell reflector f/4.5 on a non-tracking Dobsonian mount, Baader Planetarium Hyperion 8-24mm Mark III (75-225x magnification)
82.4°F, 54% H, 9.2 SSE winds, clear, Pickering 6, T 2/6
NGC7354 is a small, slightly faint planetary nebula in Cepheus. Through the telescope, it is located the middle of a star pattern that resembles Sagitta where Delta Sagittae would have been. The star pattern consists of TYC4265-877-1 (m11.7) and USNO J2240137+612011 (m13.2) to the north with TYC4265-347-1 (m10.68) to the south. A strand of three other stars to the west, along with the pattern of stars that resembled Sagitta and NGC7354, resembled the shape of an ear or an ammonite fossil.
75x magnification: Small, soft circular disk, with a hint of slight elongation. O-III adds contrast and there was a hint of brightness in the center of it. A 14.75 magnitude star to the southwest and a 15.3 magnitude star to the southeast of NGC7354 were observed at this magnification just outside of the disk.
225x magnification: A third star with a magnitude of 14.9 was observed just outside of the disk to the west. Using an O-III, the NE and SW edges of the disk were fainter and I could see a brightened edge to the nebula around the rest of the disk with a fainter center. I detected a faint, diffuse haze outside of the brighter borders and there may have been a hint of the central star as it looked slightly grainy in the center of the disk.
Sketches created with AL template, #2 graphite pencil, loaded blending stump with charcoal, super-fine Faber-Castell Pitt artist pen “S”, 0.5mm mechanical pencil.
M13
Global Cluster in Hercules
Location: Schoenebeck (Germany)
Date: 16th April 2010
Media: Blank paper, pencil, “Faststone”
Instrument: 250/1250 Dobsonian Telescope
Dear Asod,
I hereby send you my latest sketch of some nice and interesting Moon Craters. Each of the craters was visible in different ways and this is the spice of the whole thing. Hommel was almost fully in dark, Nearch and Viacq was half in dark but half in sunlight, and Rosenberg in fully sunlight. It made the sketching more difficult, but for me it was even more interesting.
Date: 31st October 2011, UT: 16:30 – 17:30
Equipment used: 130/650 SW, 130x, Meade neutral filter
Media: Graphite pencil used on white paper
NGC 2237/39 Rosettennebel mit 16 Zoll
Ort: Kreuzleshöhe 1100m, Germany
GG: 6m5+
Object Name: KOI-172.02
Object Type: Exoplanet
Location: Lith, the Netherlands
Date: 26-01-2013
Media: Photoshop CS5
Recently, a new planet is discovered by astronomers affiliated with the Kepler Mission Space Observatory. No big deal you might think. Well, it probably is a big deal because this is not a normal planet. KOI-172.02 (what is the scientific name of the object), is a candidate exoplanet that is a so called Super-Earth.
The planet has a radius of 1.54 times that of the Earth, and orbits a sun-like star, named KOI 172. This is a G-type star which is somewhat cooler than our own sun. KOI-172.02 lies within the habitable zone of his star. A zone where liquid water could exist on the surface of the planet. Scientists claim the exoplanet, if confirmed, could be a prime candidate to host alien life.
Imagine yourself being in a spaceship at approximately 1.040 light years from Earth. You are getting close to the just discovered Super-Earth, and you’ll be the first who will know if this planet contains life or not. Anyway, it will be a unforgettable experience.
Thanks for watching,
Rutger Teule
http://www.rutgerteule.com/
Object: M5
Coordinates: +02°03′ 15h19m
Date: 2012-03-04 03:00UT
Location: Nagyvarsány/Hungary
Telescope: 140/880 Newtonian reflactor (88X, Fov: 0,5′)
Media: Digital drawing (Photoshop CS2)
I think, the best globular cluster of the Messier catalog: relatively bright stars, large apparent diameter, and interesting visual spectacle. The stars form to long chains in it.
My blog: viktorcsehdraws.blogspot.com
Clear Skies!
Viktor
Object Name: Messier 35, NGC 2158
Object Type: Open Star Cluster
Location: Downey, CA, USA
Date: January 3, 2011. 23:00-0:00 PST.
Media: No. 2 pencil on White paper. Imaged and inverted on iPhone 4s. Second sketch ever.
Used: 200mm f/4 Astro-Tech Newtonian, with 24mm Explore Scientific 68-degree Argon Eyepiece, at 33.3X.
Seeing Conditions: 4 to 5 magnitude, with bright Moon. Was hoping to be able to see NGC 2158. But i guess that the Moon was a factor that night. I will try again on a moonless night and hopefully at least some fuzziness will appear for that little cluster.
