Object Name: Messier 8, Lagoon Nebula
Object Type: Emission nebula
Location: Wilp, The Netherlands
Date: July 21, 2012
Media: Black pen and graphite pencil on white paper
After literally weeks of rainfall and clouds, last night the sky finally cleared. I took my little 80mm f/6,25 refractor out to a fairly dark site to observe some low Milky Way objects. In the Netherlands Messier 8 rises only 14 degrees above the southern horizon, but because of the very transparant sky much more detail than I expected was visible. Using an Orion Ultrablock filter the dark lane was pretty prominent, and the bright patch on the western side of the nebula appeared to glow. It was a wonderful sight at 38x (13mm Vixen LVW), even at its low altitude.
The sketch was made with a black pen (for the stars) and a 2H graphite pencil (for the nebulosity) on a piece of white paper. Inverted and orientation-flip using Photoshop.
Kind regards and clear skies!
Roel Weijenberg,
Deventer, The Netherlands
www.roelblog.nl
It looks like you have beter weather in the Netherlands.
Very nice sketch, good choice of filter and eyepiece, proficiat !
Great sketch, and you may observe under a terrific dark sky. Congratulations on your job, and show us a little bit more, please.
Roel,
Well captured big sight in a little package.
Frank 🙂