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Hi all!

Just got in from trying out the black drawing paper I got at Wallacks art supply store a few days ago. I also got a few different types of white pencils, they all seem to be soft I may need to get a harder one, but M51 turned out pretty well I think, it took about an hour at the ep. I uploaded the scanned image to a new folder in the files area... let me know what you think. Roland you may want to get some of this paper, its thick enough to take some dew but it has a slight texture to it, which may make for less than ideal scanning, it also costs 50 cents a sheet (I think its 8x10 or so).

night all!

Mike

Impressive job Mike,

I think you captured the variations in brightness of the spiral
arms quite well. But I'm suprised you didnt more more white into
the ngc5194's core. I see it as being much brighter than the
arms. I like the embedded stars. Now I'm going to have to look
at M51 because I think I preceive the start brightnesses differently
than you.

This oght to be a great technique for observing faint compact
galaxy groups. (Aftewards one could compare the drawing to DSS
images.)

Great drawing. Damm. There is so much talent in this group.

-ad

--- In OAFs@y..., "Mike Wirths" <mwirths@s...> wrote:

Just got in from trying out the black drawing paper I got at

Wallacks art supply store a few days ago. Roland you may want to get
some of this paper, its thick enough to take some dew but it has a
slight texture to it, which may make for less than ideal scanning, it
also costs 50 cents a sheet (I think its 8x10 or so).

YES!

Nice sketch of M51, Mike. I know how difficult it is to sketch a
galaxy properly, and have never been quite satisfied with my own
efforts. You've done well on this one. I've always thought that the
galazy views in your fine scopes were most worthy of sketches. Good
to see you sketching!...

Coincidentally, Janice has just yesterday purchased that kind of black
paper, a few different types of white "pencils & chalks" as well as an
all-important "smudger". Before reading this posting this morning, I
was practising with images. Turns out that, on black paper, I find a
decent job can be done on spindle galaxies, globular clusters, and
even things like veils. The most difficult, I still find are spiral
galaxies, in the that ghostly glow between arms is difficult to
convey. Also, I've found that to add the nearby or overlaid stars
really increases the realism somehow.

WAY TO GO...
To Asthetic Photons! ;-)

Rol

Many years ago I did some drawing at the eyepiece but with the usual pencil
on white paper. I scanned a few in back some months ago and, using the
"negative" button in the scanning software, got quite a nice white on black
result. If I can find some of them at home this weekend I will post one or
two.

Rick

--- In OAFs@y..., "Wagner,Rick [CIS-ADS]" <rick.wagner@e...> wrote:

Many years ago I did some drawing at the eyepiece but with the usual
pencil on white paper. If I can find some of them at home this >
weekend I will post one or two.

That'd be good as I enjoy astro-sketches quite a bit.

Rol