Category: Galaxy

Arp 37

Arp 37 (M77)
Arp 37 (M77)

Good morning all,

Arp 37 is actually better known as M77 in Cetus an object that I have sketched a number of times before, this one was deliberately just for my Arp project, lots of detail seen in this very interesting galaxy, perhaps not as much of the faint extended halo that can be seen in some CCD images as I would have liked. The sky was somewhat ‘milky’ with the SQM reading just 19.05 compared with 20.70 the previous evening, any moisture in the air causes light scatter and brings the London glow to the south, regrettably, closer to home!

Carpe Noctrum

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SN 2014J in M82

Galaxy M 82 with Supernova SN2014J on February 4, 2014
Galaxy M 82 with Supernova SN2014J on February 4, 2014

Hello,

Two and a half hours of clear sky at 04.Februar 2014 were sufficient to hold the SN in M82 and take a long walk on the winter night sky.

After a tough cloud cover and then the mist had dissolved about 21:00 clock, I could start the observation with the TMB 115/805 Apo.

The supernova was a really great thing! Very bright and striking beamed the SN in the “cigar”. After a brief enjoyment, I started with the sketch!
Unfortunately, the review was only mediocre, so blurred finer structures of the galaxy almost. Nice to see was the interruption in M 82 and south two light specks.

CS Uwe

Object: Galaxy M82
Object Name: SN 2014J
Telescope: 115/805 TMB
Eyepiece: 6mm Baader Genuine Ortho
Magnification: about 110x
Location: near Tauberbischofsheim Germany

Artistic Quasar

Artistic representation of a quasar
Artistic representation of a quasar

Description:. “In the forum in which I participate, we made a contest of artistic drawing astronomical Here, drawing a part QUASAR with most steps below.

Tools:

Dither No.4
Dither No. 6
Pencil 2B
Cotton
The digitization was done with Photoshop. Details were highlighted, the colors changed, and a Hubble image background is added, to give a more realistic touch. ”

–
Hernan “Moska” Garcia

Manager Deep Space – Astronomy Forum Argentino

Descripcion: “En el foro en el cual participio, hicimos un concurso de dibujo astronomico artistico. En este caso, participe dibujando un QUASAR, el cual paso a mostarles a continuacion.

Herramientas:

Difumino N°4
Difumino N°6
Lapiz 2B
Algodon
La digitalizacion se realizo con Photoshop. Se resaltaron detalles, se cambio los colores, y se agrego una imagen del Hubble de fondo, para darle un toque mas realista.”

Coma Cluster

Coma Cluster panorama sketch
Coma Cluster panorama sketch

“Coma Cluster” is a rich galaxy cluster, which reveals dozens of galaxies even through an amateur telescope under right conditions. This is a panoramic sketch, which shows ~15 of it’s members, with magnitudes down to 14

Object: “Coma cluster” (Abell 1656)
Type : Cluster of galaxies
Location: Negev desert, Israel, ~6.8 mag. sky.
Date: 04-05/04/2013 ; 02:00.
Instrument: 250mm F/5 Newtonian, 13mm Vixen LVW and 6.7mm ES82.
Media Graphite pencil sketch on a white paper. Inverted and processed in Photoshop.

Five Galaxies in Our Nearby Supercluster

Galaxies from left to right M 60, NGC 4647, NGC 4638, M 59 and NGC 4606
Galaxies from left to right M 60, NGC 4647, NGC 4638, M 59 and NGC 4606

• Object Name: From left to right: M 60, NGC 4647, NGC 4638, M 59 and NGC 4606
• Object Type: Gxs
• Location: Bonilla – Cuemca España
• Date: 03/05/2013
• Media: Graphite Pencil HB 2, torchon 1 and 130g drawing sheet
• Inverted color and processed GIMP 2.8

Greetings to all visitors of this page.

PVG. Alcorcon, Madrid 03/05/2013

NGC 5529

Galaxy NGC 5529
Galaxy NGC 5529

Dear fellow Webb society members 🙂

I’m very sorry that you haven’t had too much from me of late, it certainly isn’t due to the fact that I have lost interest 😉

Anyhow, prompted as I often am by Owen’s superb selection of galaxy of the month here is my b&w inversion of my original sketch of NGC 5529 a beauty from Bootes, drawn using pencil and blending stumps on cartridge paper of the image delivered in psudeo real time by my 20″ F3.7 mirror and cooled Watec 120n+ deep sky video camera onto a b&w CRT monitor. 🙂

I hope you like it and I hope that you get a chance to enjoy it yourselves.

Clear Skies, Dale

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