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Blog Post:
Brandon Doyle sketches the Hercules Cluster
David Eicher
I’ve featured several eyepiece renderings of deep-sky objects from the enthusiastic teenage observer Brandon Doyle in the past. You can see his story about drawing galaxies, clusters, and nebulae at the telescope on his website . [captionimage="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer...
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Tue, Mar 27 2012
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Brandon Doyle sketches starburst galaxy M82
David Eicher
Sixteen-year-old Brandon Doyle of Albion, New York, loves sketching deep-sky objects at the telescope. Brandon’s latest drawing, made with his 10-inch Dobsonian at 200x, shows the famous galaxy M82 in Ursa Major. M82, sometimes called the Cigar Galaxy, is a starburst galaxy with a central black...
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Wed, Dec 28 2011
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A favorite deep-sky object captured
David Eicher
I have lots and lots of favorite deep-sky objects. But among them, I hold a special place in my heart for a rather ordinary galaxy called NGC 4319 in Draco. It’s an “average Joe” NGC object in that it’s a barred spiral that glows at magnitude 12.8 and spans 3.0’ by 2.3’...
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Wed, Jun 22 2011
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The value of capturing deep-sky objects on paper
David Eicher
When I was starting to observe the sky in the mid-1970s, it was pretty common for people to head outside with a pad of paper, some pens and pencils, along with their red flashlights. These days, it seems most people want to simply look from one object to another in quick succession. But there’s...
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Fri, May 20 2011