Eskimo Nebula - NGC 2392

[DarkerSky]

Sketch of the Eskimo Nebula from my 12" at x150 magnification.

31-Jan, 2011

A smiley face in the sky greeted me Monday evening! Spent about an hour at the eyepiece squeezing out the detail on what I regard as one of the most impressive planetary nebula in the winter sky.

The detail I was picking up in the central disc was tremendous. Made out three brighter segments to the disc's edge, and an elongated shape that pointed down like a chin to the north, and flatter across the south...a bit like an alien head!

A darker segment was made out in the outer disc, brushed up against the NW boundary of the inner disc.

[tiwar]

Thats a very good rendition....

T x

[bish]

Nice sketch, lots of detail. The Eskimo is one of my favourites.

[spaceboy]

Great sketch. Enjoyed view of the Eskimo in my 10" early hours Monday morning and found it hard to pull away from the EP. Up there in my top 3 favorites. Interesting to see how much more detail only 2" extra aperture would make. What focal Lent is it ??

SPACEBOY

[chrisrnuttall]

That's a fantastic. I am surprised at the the amount of detail you have seen there.

lovely!

[johnh]

Sounds like vgood seeing that allowed that much deatil and shape to show, great sketch.

John.

[DarkerSky]

Thanks for the comments all. It was great fun observing it

Spaceboy - it's a fast scope F4.

The main thing was my baader EP and slight averted vision. These I think were key in me getting the details. The finest details only showed for a few seconds at a time over the course of about an hour. Once what I had seen flitted into view a few times then i was confident enough to call it on the sketch

[Doc]

One of the better objects for larger dobs. Great sketch and something I must do this year.

[parvee]

Great sketch.