NGC 6826
Sketch and details by Dale Holt
These day virtually all of my deep sky observing is undertaken from my observatory using my 14″ F5 Newtonian coupled with a Watec 120N video camera. I sketch the ‘virtual’ real time image from the black & white monitor display in my office attached to the observatory.
I use an HB pencil, eraser and blending stump on standard cartridge paper. I scan the image and reverse to a negative before storing as a J Peg.
For this drawing of the ‘Blinking Nebula’ NGC 6826 in Cygnus I used a Lumicon UHC filter in front of the camera.
Clear Skies, Dale
Dale,
A wonderful sketch. So nice to see one of your beautiful sketches back here at ASOD after such a long time. I hope to see many more in the near future.
Frank 🙂
Dear Frank,
Thank you for your kind but rather overly generous words. I am pleased to be back with a post on ASOD although I have never stopped looking. When I aimed my 14″ and video camera at this lovely little nebula a few weeks back I was stunned at the detail it revealled. Can you detect the little faint notch in the lower left of the dust shell?
I will send in more very soon, Dale 🙂