Stephan’s Quintet
Sketch and Details by Dale Holt
Stephan’s Quintet
Perhaps as a follow on to Jeff Young’s superb NGC 7331 “Deer Lick with fleas” My own rendition of Stephan’s Quintet might fit well?
On the 2nd of October this year I used my observatory 14″ F5 Newt with Watec 120n video camera sketching from a 9″ B&W monitor, using a graphite pencil plus blending stump on standard cartridge paper to capture the enigmatic Stephan’s Quintet.
The image was scanned and turned to a negative to give a more realistic and pleasing view. I caught up with this exquisite galaxy cluster following some wonderful shared visual studies with my 20″ at the Kelling Heath Autumn Equinox star party in Norfolk, England the previous week.
Dale,
Bravo! This is a wonderful sketch and it does go very nicely with Jeff’s sketch from a few days back.
Frank 🙂
Nice one, Dale!
I sketched the Quintet on the same night as Deer Lick — but you got much deeper with your Watec. (In fact, comparing your sketch with mine I see that I drew the core of NGC7320C, but mis-identified it as a star.)
Cheers,
— Jeff