Natural charcoal sketch of the H alpha sun on mould-made paper, 2019-02-13

[acr_astro]

Dear all,

this morning, the mid-range and high clouds vanished for a bit more than an hour. Our terrace was still in shadow, so I carried the telescope to a sunny spell in our courtyard.

So I could do a natural charcoal sketch of the sun with a wonderful faint but pretty large prominence. For that and some other prominences, I used a tiny rubber 'brush' tool to catch the faint character on paper.

Here's the result:

Telescope: Lunt LS 50 THa B600 PT
Eyepiece: Celestron X-cel 10mm
Date & Time: February 13th, 2019 / 1015-1100 CET
Location: home courtyard, Dusseldorf region, Germany
Technique: natural charcoal on white Hahnemühle Ingres mould-made pastel paper
Size: 24x31cm

Clear skies!

Achim

[Davey-T]

Nice sketch Achim, still waiting for the Sun promised in the forecast to appear here.

Dave

[Ruud]

It has a nature of its own. Different, interesting and good.

Is this charcoal that you make yourself?

Thanks

[carastro]

I am so impressed by all these solar sketches I have seen over the last few days, this one included.

Carole 

[Lurcher]

That's amazing! Well done on many levels!

[mariosi]

SUPERB!

[acr_astro]

Dear all,

thanks for the great feedback and all of the likes! ?

Actually today, I could observe the sun again (between 1100 and 1515 CET) and was surprised by the changes of prominences: The ones from the left side of yesterday's sketch were all gone! And on the right side a new one has appeared. I just did quick pencil sketches in my observation handbook:

At quarter past three this afternoon, the prominence (which started as a christmas tree) looked a bit like Don Quijote on his horse ?:

Let's see what will have changed tomorrow. Weather forecast promises up to 10 hours of sunshine tomorrow and on Saturday.

On 13/02/2019 at 13:23, Davey-T said:

 still waiting for the Sun promised in the forecast to appear here.

I keep fingers crossed for you as well!

 

On 13/02/2019 at 13:42, Ruud said:

Is this charcoal that you make yourself?

No, this is just purchased drawing charcoal sticks (I think made from vine branches).

Clear - and sunny - skies to all of you!

Achim

[Davey-T]

Excellent work Achim but you may have your east / west mixed up I think 

You can check on GONG to see orientation. 

http://halpha.nso.edu/

Dave

[acr_astro]

Hi Dave,

yes, the scope's mirror is flipping left and right. But I don't care and sketch simply how I see it. ?

Clear skies!

Achim

[Lurcher]

Brilliant stuff. (I quite want a Lunt LS 50 now so I can have a go and see if I can do that too and get similar results and drawings!).

[Pete Presland]

A fine looking sketch of the superb prom.