Astronomy Sketch of the Day – Page 97 – Drawings and sketches of an astronomical nature

NGC 5189

Here is my submission of to day: NGC 5189, one of the most structured planetary nebulae of the all sky.

The number of details is impressive in the 20” Obsession, and the pristine skies of Tivoli lodge, Kalahari desert, Namibia, during the new moon of last june.
Sketch has been made, as usual, directely on the screen of my computer, with lines of equal luminosity. From this sketch, and the detailed notes I wrote on my observing paperbook, I realised the final drawing some days after, with Paintshop Pro.

More details at http://www.deepsky-drawings.com/ngc-5189/dsdlang/fr

Regards
Bertrand

NGC 457 – The Owl Cluster

Owl cluster (NGC457) by Sasan Yekani

September 13, 2012

Object Name ( owl cluster NGC457)
Object Type (open cluster)
Location ( iran,dergajen, 35.058548°N, 51.420321°E)
Date ( September 13, 2012
Media ( white pencil, black paper, yellow pastel)
25mm, 48x , C8-SGT (XLT) Computerized Telescope

Explanation:The first step is enhancing the contrast then increasing the brightness. Making the image black & white requires going to image menu, select adjusments and clicking on the Black&White button. Finally I’m going to add a little sharpness to the image by selecting Sharpen button from the Filter menu.

InOMN Daylight Moon

Crescent Moon on International Observe the Moon Night

Hi ASOD

Another watercolour I did during the InOMN event (International Observation of the Moon Night) but… during the daylight.

Object Name (2012 September 22 Moon)
Object Type (Daylight Moon)
Location (Néoules Provence France)
Date (2012 September 22 – 16hoo Local Time)
Media (graphite pencil for the moon, watercolour for the landscape)

We organize a special event for the InOMN (International Observation of the Moon Night).

21 of us attended this pleasant event organized by the local club “Polaris83”. We used 7 miscellaneous telescopes during the event.

I made two separate sketches, one with standard graphite pencil for the moon, the second one is a common watercolour I did of the local wild landscape. I scanned both paper and compile them together.

I used my 1000/102 Bresser refractor with a 40mm eyepiece to get a good contrast facing the bright background sky.

The compilation was done with the freeware software : Paint.Net

Conditions were perfect, the sun was hot here… !

Clear sky to you all
Michel Deconinck

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Three Nights with M31 and Companions

un dessin au T400, multi grossissement (nagler 31, ethos 21, 13, 8mm), 3 night observation, paper A4 with stars préimprimate, but validate indivudial,
graphite crayon, col Restefond 2500m, mi august

M20 – The Trifid Nebula

M20 (BN/DN in Sgr)
Location : Mt. Bo-Hyun, South Korea (1,100M)
Date : May/27/2012
Media : Black paper, White Pastel / Conte
Equipment : Discovery 15″ Dob, Pentax XL 14mm

Hi. ASOD and everyone.

Last May, the latitude of the M20 is enough than I think. So I observe the Trifid nebula. The most distinctive appearance is the asymmetric three-pronged dark lane and the two fuzzy star located in the middle of the nebula.

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조 강 욱 / Kang Uk, Cho

The Ring Nebula

Object Name (M57 Ring Nebula)
Object Type (Planetary Nebula)
Location ( Zielona Gora, 51.9333°N, 15.5000°E )
Date ( September 14, 2012)
Media (graphite pencil, white paper)

4″ Maksutov, 25mm kellner, 52x, urban polluted sky

Andromeda Galaxy

Hello, send my first drawing. Sorry for my English. Excellent website. Thanks a greeting

object name: andromeda galaxy messier 31
type: galaxy
telescope: achromatic refractor 80mm eyepiece bst explore ed 25mm 60°
location: bonilla cuenca spain
date: 15 august 2012
material used: graphite pencil,digital tools gimp
neml 5,9 chart 18 and

Messier 42

Object Name: M42

Object Type: Orion emission nebula

Location: Iran_Sabzevar

Date: 21/9/2012

Media: Black Cardboard with white Charcoal Lead Pencil

Im Shadi from a little town of Iran and I have pretty good conditions for observing!!! I can almost Observe most of Messier Objects and NGCs with my little 80 mm refractor telescope!

Shadi Shahraini:) happy

Omega Nebula M17

file name – “1280 m17 omega joong_asod”
object Name – Omega Nebula M17
object Type – Omega Nebula M17
Location – But-gogae Gosong-ri Yangdong-myeon Yangpyeong-gun Gyeonggi-do S.KOREA
Media – pencil, charcoal , white Paper(croquis book)

XQ 10″ Dob / Explore 9mm 100′(2 inch) / Orion UltraBlock(NarrowBand 2inch)

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Messier 57

Hi,

I send my sketch of the M57. This is planetary nebula. I live in the countryside and have good conditions for observing faint objects. M57 looks very nice in my 150x magnification telescope.

Daniel Stasiak
Object name: Planetary nebula, Messier 57
Location Psary in POLAND
Media: white paper and pecil. GIMP
date: 22 august 2012

I greet;)