-Messier 8 / NGC 6523
-Emission Nebula
-Connecticut, USA
-August 6, 2010
-Black and grey colored pencil on white paper, black uni-ball pen to accentuate stars, and eraser to help smudge nebulosity. Drawing photographed with Panasonic DMC-TZ3 and imported to Photoshop for inverting, and slight blurring to “nebulize” the actual emissions while keeping stars intact.
Observed in an orange/yellow zone with a 203mm Newtonian. M8 was sketched as seen with a Lumicon UHC filter which created an extremely noticeable improvement in the extent of the region’s nebulosity. Transparency was judged to be about a seven out of ten.
Paul Schneider
Paul,
This is good sketch.
Marek
Ah, the effects of light pollution are so pernicious! Paul has drawn an image of M8 that would closely resemble the view with a 2″ telescope and no filter under pristine skies.
Beautifully detailed, this drawing points out how important it is that all of we amateur astronomers support light-abatement programs.
Paul, you deserve to see how M8 appears under dark skies with the same equipment.
You obviously have an eye for detail–you would be overwhelmed.