Category: open clusters

A Beaded Cluster

Messier 38
Messier 38

Hello Artists!

When I sketching, usually I use black paper and jelly pen.

How can I do the more realistic expression?

The open cluster is glittering in the black sky.

So I thought that I can express this glittered stars with the beads!

How is this work?

http://www.nightflight.or.kr/xe/files/attach/images/25489/227/090/938569eb3df65d19a9f2e186d763a4f2.jpg

(Please watch by the large-sized display with most bright mode)

Original Sketch link (Black paper & White pen)
http://www.nightflight.or.kr/xe/files/attach/images/25489/530/060/51788857dd4c2693072de783d82f680a.jpg

Object : M38 (OC in Auriga)

Location : South Korea

Media : Swarovski crystal beads, Black felt

Nightwid 無雲

Double cluster in Perseus

Double cluster in Perseus NGC 869 and NGC 884
Double cluster in Perseus NGC 869 and NGC 884

Object name: Double cluster in Perseus NGC 869 and NGC 884
Object type: Open cluster
Location: Bogotá, Colombia.
Date: 06-NOV-2012
Media: Graphite pencil and yellow notebook paper. Scanned and inverted.
Equipment: 15X70 Binoculars

Hello all,

Since June of the last year i started this hobbie to sketch the objects i saw from my very light polluted area. As a begginer i think is a good way to learn and memorize the sky. This page and also ronys site are my favorites and i would like to make a page like that. Unfortunately i still have some problems trying to make better my sketches by using photoshop.

This sketch was performed on 3 nights of observation and it was easy to find from deltha Cas because my view of Perseus is obstructed by my neighbor building. In the denses areas of the cluster i can not resolve the stars but they together are seen like an clearer area compared with the reddish/blue (becasue LP) background.

Thanks to all for watching.

Messier 37

Messier 37
Messier 37

Clear nights this winter from my New Jersey location have been few so when the night of March 9th presented a clear sky I took advantage and did several sketches of open clusters in the Auriga and Gemini region. Submitted here is my sketch of M37 which I believe turned out to be the best sketch of the lot. A beautiful densely packed cluster of stars in Auriga M37 reminds me very much of the open cluster M11 in Scutum.

Location – NJ, USA
Telescope – Orion Astroview 100 Refractor, 32mm Plossl, 2x Barlow, 37.5x
Media – Laptop computer using MS Paint and MyPaint programs

NGC 6231

NGC 6231
NGC 6231

Altough my previous contributions have been made through my big dobson Obsession 635mm, I propose this time a drawing of an observation with a L 80 Megrez.

NGC 6231:

Object name: NGC 6231
Object type: Open cluster
Constellation: Scorpio

Date of observation:
07 juin 2004 20:08 UT

Length of observation:
32 min

Object position:
Alt: 54.2°, Az: 129.9°

Weather conditions:
Twifeldfountain 20h00: t~12° V0 huns

Observation conditions:
T0 P0 S1/104 ! (on a scale from 0 prefect to 5 very bad)

Observing site:
Namibia

Instrument:
LC 80/500 Megrez II SD

Main eyepiece:
Televue Nagler 7mm Type 2

Barlow:
(None)

Magnification:
71x

Sketch made with pencil on booknote, then final drawing processed with Paint Shop Pro and Starspikes Pro.

My notes are: the cluster is no so huge as NGC 3532, no so colored as NGC 4755, but for me, I’m asking if it isn’t the most beauteful and dramatic cluster allover the sky.
In Namibia, in my Megrez 80, it is rich, brillant, contrasted, with both weak and dazzling stars. At 45° high, I counted beetwen 90 and 100 stars, according to the visual limits, more or less the ones of the Dias catalogue.
And it is also interesting to know that I couldn’t point at more than 55 stars with my TSC Meade LX200 / 254mm from the french southern Alps. But It’s true to precise that, from that place, the cluster reached 4.2° of altitude!
You can have more details at http://www.deepsky-drawings.com/ngc-6231/dsdlang/en

Clear skies
Bertrand, from Marseille / France