Sketch study of the Veil

[PhilM]

As a pretty new member of this forum I thought I'd contribute something I did a couple of months ago. While I love imaging I also get a lot out of sketching. I'm completely carp at it but I get a lot of satisfaction and enjoy that extended time at the eyepiece as a change to spending hours shouting at my equipment when I can't get the autoguiding going...

Here are some sketches of the Veil nebula through a 20" dob and a Televue Genesis 4" apo, both using a 35mm Televue Panoptic and an OIII filter under very dark skies (I was counting somewhere in the region of 16 stars within the square of Pegasus). A lucky boy I was indeed, I just wish I had access to that sort of kit all the time. The sketches were taken over several nights.

It was a thoroughly pleasurable thing to do, spending that much time at the eyepiece getting to know the objects. In particular I was thrilled to see Pickerings Triangular Wisp visually, especially as I had not previously seen an image and only confirmed my sighting by comparing the position of the field stars with those in long exposure images. Contrasting the view in the 20" with seeing the whole of the supernova remnant in the field of view of the Genesis with the Panoptic was, well, brilliant.

Don't laught at my artistic ability, well not much

Phil

Eastern segment

Western segment

Pickerings Triangular Wisp

The whole thing fitting in the eyepiece of a 35mm Panoptic in a Televue Genesis

[lunator]

Phil

very nice sketches

You were lucky to have such wonderful skies

Cheers

Ian

[dogfish]

Very nice indeed. I envy you the equipment and skies that enabled you to get those views.

Thanks for sharing. Martin

[PhilM]

Thanks for the comments.

They were made while on holiday in Provence - made me a little bit too smitten with good kit and dark skies. I was very lucky to get 8 nights observing from a 10 day holiday with about 3 nights of absolutely exquisite conditions

[barkis]

Phil, These are wonderful sketches. Anyone who would laugh at these, would be considered very naive in my book. Of course nobody on this forum would. I have said this before, I think sketching from the eyepiece is a terrific way to present an image. It teaches great discipline, and the people who practice this skill will turn out to be very capable observers. I hope you keep doing this, because they are a great way to record objects on a particular night, and you also supply information relative to the subject.

Great work.

Ron.

[Beyond_Vision]

Must have been a real treat to have so many nights viewing in a row with a 20" dob and a superb set of drawings to keep the memory of it.

Regards

Kevin

[Cloudwatcher]

Playing 'catch-up' with posts at the moment and have only just seen these.

Glad I didn't miss them,there great!

I like first two best,I think. Lovely detail but retaining the essentially ephemeral feel of the subject.

Got any more?

CW

[SteelRat]

Good stuff Phil - what can be seen through a 20 inch scope eh?

That first'n reminded me o Rog's veil images

[SteelRat]

a Televue Genesis 4" apo, both using a 35mm Televue Panoptic

Heh heh - WOW

[Nexus 6]

brilliant!

was searching this forum and had a look as this, I think its really good, bear in mind its from 2007 though

[SiriusB]

Great sketches Phil!