Messier 5

[Roel]

    Object Name: Messier 5
    Object Type: Globular cluster
    Location: Deventer, The Netherlands
    Date: June 2, 2014
    Media: White pastel and white gel pen on black paper

This time of year the sun never drops low enough under the horizon for true astronomical darkness. Only after midnight we get a few hours of relatively dark skies, but a faint blue glow always remains visible above the northern horizon. However, bright objects can still be very impressive in the eyepiece. Messier 5 is a fine example: a very bright ball of stars, loosely scattered amidst a few dozen foreground stars. When I made this sketch, the sun was only 12 degrees below the horizon. What is very striking visually is the off-center core of M5. The brightest part seems to be slightly to the west of the cluster.

I made the sketch using a white gel pen for the stars and a white soft pastel pencil for the glow of unresolved stars. It was the first time I made a positive deepsky sketch, normally I use graphite on white paper. The image is the original field sketch.

Clear skies!

Roel Weijenberg
www.roelblog.nl

[todd8137]

Very nice very eye piece view

Pat

[Christhorpe]

Awesome. Wish I could draw. Might help me with my ap woes !!!!

[StarSapling]

Great job on my favorite globular!

[rory]

Very nice. Cheers for sharing.

[Mr Flibble]

Stars resolved to the core and plenty of structure around the outer edges of the haze. Stunning sketch!

[nightskystargazer]

Roel,

Very nice sketch of M-5   .

CS,KLU,

Thanks,   ,

Tom