Category: Mars

Mars, Jupiter and a Crescent Moon for Breakfast

Mars, Jupiter and Crescent Moon - October 29, 2013
Mars, Jupiter and Crescent Moon – October 29, 2013

Object Name : night sky
Object Type : Planets, stars and moon
Location : Montréal, Canada
Date: October 29th 2013
Media: pastel, white and pink gel pens on black paper

Unable to sleep I decided to get up early on October 29th. It was 5:00 in the morning and the air was crisp but the sight was absolutely gorgeous. I decided to get my pastels and try my best to represent the ambiance and colors of the scenery. Mars was at the left side of a crescent moon and Jupiter hanging high at the right hand side with Castor and Pollux (Gem)

Jean Barbeau

Warrior in the Cradle

Conjunction of Mars and Messier 44
Conjunction of Mars and Messier 44

Hello friends:

Planetary conjunction at dawn: Mars in The Beehive (M44)

Graphite drawing on white paper (inverted Ps).
Binocular 12×80 (4,2º) at 4:30 UT (height of Mars 21º over horizon)

Mars is within the cluster and framed by the four stars of
Cancer (Asellus Borealis, Asellus Australis, 31 Cnc and 33 Cnc). Its colour was bright orange between blue and white stars.

Mars – February 19, 2012

Mars - February 19, 2012
Mars – February 19, 2012

Object Name: Mars
Object Type: Planet
Location: Lombard, IL, USA, 41° 52′ 48″ N / 88° 0′ 28″ W
Date: 19 Feb 2012, 22:20-22:45 CST
Media: Pencil
Comments: This is Mars observed using my homemade 8″ f5.9 dob and Baader Hyperion 5mm, I had a pretty good seeing that evening. After scanning the picture, color balance was adjusted in Photoshop to better resemble observable Martian palette. The image to the right was generated by Stellarium for comparison.

Mars and Mercury

Conjunction of Mars and Mercury
Conjunction of Mars and Mercury

Here join my last watercolour

Object Name (Mars and Mercury)
Object Type (Planet conjunction)
Location (Sainte-Anastasie-sur-Issole, Provence, France)
Date (08-02-2013)
Media (watercolour)

This February 8th between 17h and 18h (UT) I wanted to watch an unusual planets conjunction and set, Mars and Mercury separated by only 15 ‘. This could be seen through the long and wide belt of Venus. I found a peak of 360° free to obstacles – 500 meter altitude. North we see clearly two winter sports resorts and South the Porquerolles Island and its lighthouse – 2 x 10 sec, so… the “M” morse letter, to celebrate our two planets M.. ?
It was cold with a strong wind, I still observed one hour. Some pictures with my little camera and two quick sketches, a complete landscape and an eyepiece vision, in order to be ready to make a watercolour, the day after.
Mercury was bright, clearly visible with a white light. Mars was 8 times less light but very red. No details with my reflector 100/500, plus an eyepiece K12mm. We can just imagine the disc-shaped appearance of the two planets. Mercury was gibbous almost full and very close the tiny and still red planet.

Clear sky to you all !

Michel Deconinck
http://www.aquarellia.com

Mars – March 18, 2012

Mars - March 18, 2012
Mars – March 18, 2012

Hi everyone.
I’d like to present you my newest sketch of our Universe. It’s one of Solar System planets – Mars. It’s little small in this year opposition. It’s still beautiful, though. But the good seeing days have gone with coming of spring in Poland. I’m sure it was one of the last days with such a stable air before Mars will move away from Earth. So I decided to perpetuate the Roman god of war.

Object Name: Mars
Object Type: Planet
Location: Płaza, Poland
Date:18.03.2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted in Photoshop CS2

2012 Mars Opposition

2012 Mars Opposition
2012 Mars Opposition

Hallo

This year was my first “Mars-season”. At the first observation I was like: “What? How am I supposed to see any details at this tiny thing?” But I stayed persistent and Mars revealed his beauty bit by bit. And at the end I was surprised about the visible details.

Location: Carinthia – Austria
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper. Afterwork and coloration with Gimp2.

Mars – February 10, 2012

Mars - February 10, 2012
Mars - February 10, 2012

On the night of Feburuary 10 th, 2012, ….. with a good, stable atmosphere, I could observe fairly good details on the surface of Mars.

General whole details of my sketch are seems to resemble the photographes of Fredd. Willems in the [Alpo – japan ] homepage on FEB. 3th , 2012. who had taken it with a C 14.

One of differences between my sketch and C 14 photoes is , the size, shape of the rather graysh white elliptical spot which sticked together beside the ” BIGGER” white NPC. …… my sketch shows ( that is to say, in the eyepiece view ….) a fairly more bigger size elliptical spot than C-14 photo.

telescope; 8 inches achromat f/ 12 refractor at x500
home-made equatorial
Location; at backyard my house in South Korea
white paper, graphite pencils