Hello friends, I want to share with everyone an unforgettable experience, a journey inside the globular cluster M13. Object Name: M13 (NGC 6205) Globular Cluster Location: Benacebada, Granada (Spain) Date: 2010.07.09 Media: graphite pencil, white paper. Telescope: 16″ Dob. The observing conditions: with new moon, the seeing and transparency excellent. For details inside of M13 … Continue reading Inside M13: A River in Darkness
Rho-Ophiuchi, Antares and M4 Sketch and Details by Leonor Ana Hernández The view through the binocular was splendid, Antares highlighted with an intense orange and was surrounded by a diffuse cloud, visible with averted vision. The field was rich, plenty of stars, I distinguished perfectly the cluster M4 as a round nebula of grey cotton. … Continue reading Antares´s Neighborhood
Gates of Mare Imbrium and Ptolemaeus Sketch and Details by Leonor Ana Hernández Object name: oriental region of Mare Imbrium and Ptolemaeus crater Object Type: Lunar Crater and Maria The last sunday 31th we could point the telescope to the moon in a beautiful place called “Las Inviernas” Guadalajara, Spain. The moon was just on … Continue reading Sunrise on the Moon: Gates of Mare Imbrium and Ptolemaeus
Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) and Saturn Sketch and Details by Leonor Ana Hernández COMET LULIN c/2007N3 The medium used: graphite pencil. Negative image. The equipment used: 12×80 Binoculars (Field 4,2º) Date: 23-02-2009 Place: Cuerva (Toledo, Spain) The night was explendid, clear and cold (1º C). The Sky Quality Meter (SQM-L) shows 21,17 mag/seg arc^2 The … Continue reading Two Lords of the Heavens
Comet 17/P Holmes sketch 2 By Leonor Ana Hernandez Hello friends! This is my vision of this wonderfull comet, I have spent several nights watching it an thinking: ” Oh! how beautifu!” I take my graphite pencil and draw it in white paper two times with different optics. Comet 17/P Holmes sketch 2 … Continue reading Expansive Visitation
Blue Light Moon, you saw me standing alone… View of the moon through my 12 x 80 Vixen binoculars. Beautiful vision of the Crescent Moon, bluish due to the eveningh twilight. Made with graphite pencil and colored in blue with pohotochop to increase the sensation of twilight. Date: 21 – 07 – 2007 Place: Las … Continue reading Blue Light Moon
NGC 246 The medium used: graphite pencil, The equipment used: 8″ f/10 SCT. Eyepiece 4mm. Date: 02-09-2000 Weather: very good conditions, clear and transparency. Big nebula, faint, perfectly rounded and double. Field rich in stars even inside the nebula, it looks like an open cluster with surrounded nebula like a sly double Ring. Leonor
NGC147 (Caldwell 17) The medium used: graphite pencil, The equipment used: 8″ f/10 SCT. Date: 14-10-2006 Weather: very good conditions, clear and transparency. Very close to Molina de Aragon (Guadalajara, Spain.) Faint galaxy, perfectly elliptic. This galaxy in one of the Andromeda satellites, located in the constellation of Cassiopea. Field rich in stars, its … Continue reading Runaway little Andromeda NGC147
Hello friends!! I have been busy a few months but I am back again :- ) I send you a sketch that I did last year showing the Zodiacal Light. It was the first time I saw it in so good conditions and very clear. The weather was perfect, transparency, very very clear skies. … Continue reading Celestial Pyramid
This summer I visited a friend in La Palma (Canaries) and could observe the wonderful sky that there they have with his telescopes. One of them dedicated to the solar observation is an apochromatic refractor 120 mm. F/6,5 (Vixen), it has a filter installed H alpha SolarMax 90 (Coronado). The day I observed he … Continue reading Solar protuberances
