| rodelaet |
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| 04/09/08 05:18 PM |
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Binocular Icon 4 : Berenice's Hair, Melotte 111
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Another object that’s been known since antiquity is Berenice’s Hair in the constellation Coma Berenices. The true nature of this grouping of stars remained uncertain for a long time. Philibert Jacques Melotte included this object in 1915 in his Catalog of Star Cluster as Melotte 111. Finally in 1938 Robert Julius Trumpler proved that Melotte 111 was a true cluster. Latest calculations have put the cluster at a distance of 288 l-y. Only the Hyades and the Ursa Major Cluster are closer. Thanks to the cluster’s proximity, many of its stars can be seen without optical aid on a clear night.
With a pair of binoculars, the view is marvelous. The cluster is almost too large to behold in the field of view of my 8x56 binoculars. The sky-background looks devoid of faint field-stars. This fact makes the cluster members stand out even brighter against the empty sky. The bright star in the top left quadrant of the sketch is Gamma Comae.
Observing data:
Date : April 7, 2008
Time : around 21.30UT
Binoculars : Bresser 8x56
FOV: 5,9°
Filter : none
Mount : Trico Machine Sky Window
Seeing : 2,5/5
Transp. : 2,5/5
Nelm : 4,8
Sketch Orientation : N up, W right.
Digital sketch made with PhotoPaint, based on a raw pencil sketch.
| Sol Robbins |
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| 04/09/08 06:46 PM |
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Re: Binocular Icon 4 : Berenice's Hair, Melotte 111
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Beautiful sketch. Your Icon binocular series along with your rendering talents, takes sketching into a new area for viewer enjoyment.
| frank5817 |
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| 04/09/08 07:19 PM |
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Re: Binocular Icon 4 : Berenice's Hair, Melotte 111
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Rony,
Beautiful sketch, some of these fainter stars I cannot pick out with my binoculars but this is a true binocular object. Your rendering is the same top notch drawing as always.
Frank
| Carl Kolchak |
| (professor emeritus) |
| 04/10/08 12:02 PM |
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Re: Binocular Icon 4 : Berenice's Hair, Melotte 1
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Rony,
These sketches are awesome! Please keep 'em coming.
I wonder if the moderators could place these all together in a sticky, like the double star sketches are in the DS forum.
thanks for sharing them with us.
| CarlosEH |
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| 04/15/08 04:13 AM |
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Re: Binocular Icon 4 : Berenice's Hair, Melotte 1
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Rony,
A beautiful and accurate observation of Berenice's Hair (Melotte 1) in Coma Berenices. A striking grouping of stars in the heavens.
Carlos
| xfile101 |
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| 04/15/08 12:25 PM |
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Re: Binocular Icon 4 : Berenice's Hair, Melotte 1
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Quite nice!! You are a madman with those binoculars, keep 'em coming.
| Rogerio |
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| 04/16/08 04:19 PM |
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Re: Binocular Icon 4 : Berenice's Hair, Melotte 1
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Wonderfull!!!!
| rodelaet |
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| 04/24/08 01:20 PM |
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Re: Binocular Icon 4 : Berenice's Hair, Melotte 1
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Thank you all very much!
