Hello All,
I am a very active deep-sky observer and apart
from that am also from sometime into something pretty
exciting even though not yet completely exciting to
me!! Astro-sketching! I've somehow managed to sketch
12 various celestial bodies on a simple paper with a
simple pencil...ofcourse I've just begun and am
improving slowly over time!

Here I would like to share with you all my sketches, 2
of the latest which have been scanned yesterday.
Please note that it's drawn by a novice/beginner
astro-sketcher, me & I hope that you will consider
that! Sketching celestial objects gives a person a
chance to express himself his best on paper of what
the eye sees in low-light levels, something requiring
immense patience as observing or photographing (or
even more!!) itself. Surely it's not comparable to
terrestial sketching where we draw what our eyes see
best in broad daylight...it's WAY tougher to draw even
a line or dot for a celestial object, as I've realized
and you also will when you're doing it yourself!!

http://s85.photobucket.com/albums/k77/amar_universe/astronomy/Sketches/

The following objects below are sketched until now as
per early-March 2007 (below list is in order of
appearance on my webpage) (also in brackets at the end
is the year of having made the sketches):

1) Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught (Jan 2007)
2) NGC 4565 - beautiful lovely and long, edge-on
galaxy in Coma Berenices (Feb 2007)
3) Rendezvous b/w comet P/2006 T1 Levy and bright Leo
Galaxy NGC 3521 (Oct 2006)
4) Comet 4/P Faye - second view (Oct 2006)
5) Comet 4/P Faye - first view (Sep 2006)
6) Comet C/2006 M4 SWAN (Oct 2006)
7) Comet 73/P Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 fragment "C" (May
2006)
8) Comet 73/P Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 fragment "B" (May
2006)
9) Comet C/2004 Q2 Machholz (Dec 2005)
10) Sculptor galaxy - NGC 253 (~april-may 2006)
11) Comet C/2006 A1 Pojmanski (Feb/march 2006)
12) Earth's Natural satellite and closest Neighbour -
Our Moon (sometime in mid-2005)

Two of my personal & only best ones are Moon and NGC
4565..everything else is comparitively horrible..I
agree!! :( Also you will see that 9 out of 12 of them
are fortunately "comets", as I didnt want to lose them
forever out of our Solar System..everything else can
wait! :) I need to sketch 3 more comets I've seen in
my list from memory sometime soon, it's very necessary
(two seen way back in 2004; LINEAR & NEAT and one just
a few months back, Garradd).

There are ONLY 12 above because I get literally
"bored" in EACH observing session to draw anything and
this is happening since past FEW months..or else I
would have had MUCH more drawings with me!! :( Surely
my dormant interest is rising higher with each
upcoming sketch and soon I wish to have my own album
with overflowing wonderful sketches in it! Comments
for EACH IMAGE from all are wanted, and negative
comments also ARE wanted, as to where to improve. I
surely would look forward to see your drawings
too..your personal representations of the heavens
above. Ofcourse a lot can be shared between us, so
please do share them. Tips from experts are most
wanted. More of my drawings/sketches on the
way..please wait. Best of luck to all. Thanking You.
Amar A. Sharma.

WEBPAGE : http://www.angelfire.com/space2/amar



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