orestis
09-08-2010, 05:09 PM
Hi everyone:hi:,
Firstly i'll just like to say that you most definately do not need to use 500x magnification to see antares companion I tried again on this night and i saw it at 276x but obviously a lot closer but quite noticable,lots of fun with this double.
Well it was starting to get a bit darker and I wanted to sketch something and I was observing the lagoon nebula region when I saw the trifid nebula and I just wanted to sketch it too see how much detail i could pull out of it.
M20- Probally one of my favourite nebulas.Its so fun sketching this object as every minute you keep sketching something new pops out at you.Allright at first glance all I could see were the 2 middle stars in the middlewith faint haze around them.But after a while I started seeing some brighter regions and all the lobes came into view and i could see the trifid shape easily.to the right there was an orange coloured star with nebulosity surrounding it,i noticed to the bottom of it the was a brighter section.(sketch attached)
After i finished the sketch i decided to look at -
M13- One of the best globs out there,so many stars it has a very bright core with lots of stars sprinkled all over it,it was also quite large.
After this i decided to just look at the sky hoping i might see a sattelite or better a meteor.But instead i gazed at the true wonder of the milky way stretching form horizon to horizon and i could also see the emu shape easily.
I had a great night ,thanks for reading and viewing my sketch
regards Orestis:D
Firstly i'll just like to say that you most definately do not need to use 500x magnification to see antares companion I tried again on this night and i saw it at 276x but obviously a lot closer but quite noticable,lots of fun with this double.
Well it was starting to get a bit darker and I wanted to sketch something and I was observing the lagoon nebula region when I saw the trifid nebula and I just wanted to sketch it too see how much detail i could pull out of it.
M20- Probally one of my favourite nebulas.Its so fun sketching this object as every minute you keep sketching something new pops out at you.Allright at first glance all I could see were the 2 middle stars in the middlewith faint haze around them.But after a while I started seeing some brighter regions and all the lobes came into view and i could see the trifid shape easily.to the right there was an orange coloured star with nebulosity surrounding it,i noticed to the bottom of it the was a brighter section.(sketch attached)
After i finished the sketch i decided to look at -
M13- One of the best globs out there,so many stars it has a very bright core with lots of stars sprinkled all over it,it was also quite large.
After this i decided to just look at the sky hoping i might see a sattelite or better a meteor.But instead i gazed at the true wonder of the milky way stretching form horizon to horizon and i could also see the emu shape easily.
I had a great night ,thanks for reading and viewing my sketch
regards Orestis:D