M24 - Sagittarius Star Cloud (and a little M18 too)

[Roel]

Last night I went on a trip to my favourite observing site 20 miles from my home. Because of the warm summer evening temperatures I did not travel by car but tied everything onto my little 1971 Honda moped and drove off to Lochem, The Netherlands. In my backpack I carried a very cheap 70mm refractor that I can use on my photo tripod.

M24 doesn't rise very high at my lattitute (52N), but was well visible in the tiny refractor at 16x. A very nice widefield view.

I sketched the brightest stars with a black pen and used a sharp 2H graphite pencil for the "mist" of unresolved stars.

In the north-northeast corner of the sketch M18 is visible as a tiny open cluster:

Picture of the little Honda: http://www.roelblog.nl/2012/07/schets-messier-24-de-sagittarius-sterrenwolk-en-een-beetje-m18/ (scroll down)

[nightskystargazer]

Roel,

Very good sketch of M-24 and M-8

CS,KLU,

,

Tom

[4lefts]

lovely work as usual. loving the chair on the back of the moped too. reminds me of one time in vietnam i saw someone carrying a mattress on a moped .

[rory]

nice sketch, i like the m18 lurking in the background.

[S.A.M]

Excellent sketch, you have a good eye for detail.

[Venus_is_my_friend]

Brilliant sketch, great detail!