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rodelaet
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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: Jef De Wit]
      #2974245 - 03/09/09 05:17 PM

Hello Jef!

Welcome to the forum. I'm glad that you posted your first sketch over here. It's a nice first sketch, and a nice little story about your project.

I look forward to the link to your gallery.

Posting links can look weird at first. When creating a post, you should see the frame with Instant UBB Code, next to the Instant Graemlins. Click on URL and fill in the appearing fields. It works really easy.

I hope to see more of your sketches in the future, Jef.

Clear skies,

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: rodelaet]
      #2978676 - 03/11/09 09:33 PM Attachment (28 downloads)


Hay, Rony,

I don't know if the images and texts will be right here, this is a test.

http://theuniversalmatrix.com/images/hardwareComp.jpg

http://theuniversalmatrix.com]

The drawings refers to my personal beliefs about the world, inserted at my theory (The Universal Matrix of Natural Systems and Life's Cycle Theory).

The blue image is a comparative drawing between a cell system and my model about the building block of astronomic systems, which I got applying comparative anatomy between non-living systems and the diagrams of living system I have studied at Amazon Jungle.

My viewpoint is that the living cell is a genetic copy or reproduction from that building block.So, I think, the first biological system (first living being)was produced genetically by the astronomical proto-system (the image bekow my name here, at left), which is composed by the different shapes of a unique body, any living being gets in its life cycle.

Then, there is no separation between Cosmological Evolution and Biological Evolution: the three variables (VSI= Variation,Selection, Inheritance)of Darwin's Theory (Micro-Evolution) applies to Cosmological Evolution also, but,Cosmological Evolution is macro-evolution and has seven variables, which applies to micro-evolution and finally explains the gaps and problems we had with neo-darwinian theory.

The image at left is my drawing about what I believe is the origens/genesis of astronomical bodies. It performs a circuit of a perfect closed system, but it is not a visible system because it is a proto-system performed by any life cycle. Begining the description at Function 1 we have a nuclear quasar containing a black hole. The BH is reached by comets and stars' dust, mixing everything and making spherical hot bodies (stellars germs). The hot bodies are expelled and meet the event horizon, where they recipes the aggregation of dust making several layers (the initial hot sphere is kept as nucleous.). At Function 3, the body is like a planet, when falls into the orbit of a star. The energy from the star wake up the nucleous and begins nuclear reactions, which produces more and more strong volcanoes, till the planet becomes a pulsar (Function 4). The pulsar ejects the volcanoes' magma in shape of Comets, towards the black hole. After that the volcanoes explodes as a Supernova (Function 6) wich will die as stellar cadaver (Funtion 7). The mass from F.7 goes to the nucleous, recycling the hole system.

This image is the exactly configuration of a living sexual reproduction process transformed as mechanical process in a Newtonian way.All of the seven life's properties already were performed in the sky about 10 billions ago, before life's origins here.

Then,I don't believe on the accepted Nebular Theory and its beliefs about spontaneous generation of astronomical bodies. I think there is a unique body with a life cycle, which presents the different shapes we call star, planet, pulsar, etc.

The cell systems works the same way, the ribossome performs the planetary functions, the mitochondria performs the pulsar funtions, etc. The building block as hardware has its face as a kind of software's diagram, composed by the flow of information internal to the system. The same diagram is equal a pair of nucleotide, the building block of RNA/DNA, then, they must had created biological systems (aka,living beings).

Ok, there is a lot of things here for explaining but my weak English and missing time turns it impossible just now. By the way, thanks by the opportunity for getting any critical comments for testing and improving those models. Cheers...

Edited by Morelli (03/12/09 02:15 PM)


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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: Morelli]
      #3014900 - 03/30/09 09:23 PM Attachment (20 downloads)

My first sketch attempt... many thanks to all of you who have posted insperations and penciling techniques

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LX90 8" EMC
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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: Odin]
      #3018395 - 04/01/09 04:18 PM

Hello Rudy,

Thank you for sharing your first sketch over here.

I guess it's the Trapezium in the Orion Nebula?

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: rodelaet]
      #3018876 - 04/01/09 08:16 PM

Rodelaet, Thanks for the Kind Comment and tagging the sketch... I forgot to tag. Been fun sketching so far.. Truly enjoy viewing everyones sketch postings.

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LX90 8" EMC
Rigel Quickfinder
ETX125PE UHTC
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Meade Electronic Eyepiece
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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: Odin]
      #3107492 - 05/15/09 09:39 PM



My first sketch. This was made with my first "real" scope, a 10" Dob.


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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: nitrohepcat]
      #3109925 - 05/17/09 05:21 AM

Hi Justin,

Nice work with that first sketch of yours!

Thank you for sharing.

Have you been sketching alot since '90?

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: rodelaet]
      #3112475 - 05/18/09 01:29 PM

After encouragement by TheChemist, I thought I'd finally dip my toe in, being new to sketching itself and to the whole idea of astrosketching.

This first one is awful. It was my first attempt of using blackboard chalk on 8x8" black cartridge:



Figuring I was doing something really wrong (the chalk tip is ~1cm diameter, etc), so I gave it another go -- this time with pencil:



It's slightly better and gave me some much-needed practice at shading, too.

Both are the Sea of Serenity, drawn from one of my first astrophotos done in April. (I've not put the image here, as it's supposed to be about sketching! )

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: Jumile]
      #3112555 - 05/18/09 02:06 PM

Jumile, I think you are on the right track. The sketches look good and the second does show change over the first one, which is still good. Enjoy sketching...keep it up...and start posting. Roland

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: Jumile]
      #3112715 - 05/18/09 03:37 PM

Matt,

Those sketches show great potential!
Like Roland said, you are on the right track.

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Jumile
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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: rodelaet]
      #3116523 - 05/20/09 11:12 AM

Thanks for the encouragement, Roland and Rony.

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: rodelaet]
      #3122659 - 05/23/09 11:24 AM Attachment (11 downloads)

Hello Everyone!This is my fist time posting a sketch on this forum.this is from the archives of the Vega Sky Center,1970 ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL dating back to February 1970,when I had just gotten a Selsi 60mm Vari-power refractor.I've included a sketch of that instrument also,and I was fortunate to retrieve my journals after the Lower Ninth Ward area of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 with 12 feet of gulf water.Though water damaged,I was able to restore them quite succcessfully

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12"GSO f/5.3" Newtonian Reflector 10" Meade LX-50 Fork Mounted Schmidt-Cassegrain
8" Hardin f/6 Newtonian reflector
6" Konus f/8 Refractor,Yulin 5"f/9 refractor,
4.5"TASCO Luminova f/9 Newtonian Reflector 4.5"TASCO 11TR(Lunagrosso) Red reflector
90mm Meade f/11 refractor,Tasco 10TE 76mm 1200mm f/l Refractor
60mm TASCO 7TE-5 1000mm f/16.7 Refractor 60mm TASCO 9TE 700mm f/l refractor
60mm TASCO 9TE-0 710mm f/l Refractor 50mm-TASCO 6TE-5 600mm f/l Refractor

Edited by BarabinoSr (05/23/09 11:29 AM)


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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: BarabinoSr]
      #3122735 - 05/23/09 12:28 PM Attachment (12 downloads)

August 16 1970 Partial Lunar Eclipse.Vega Observatory founding night.Scope is the 60mm Selsi Vari power scope.

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12"GSO f/5.3" Newtonian Reflector 10" Meade LX-50 Fork Mounted Schmidt-Cassegrain
8" Hardin f/6 Newtonian reflector
6" Konus f/8 Refractor,Yulin 5"f/9 refractor,
4.5"TASCO Luminova f/9 Newtonian Reflector 4.5"TASCO 11TR(Lunagrosso) Red reflector
90mm Meade f/11 refractor,Tasco 10TE 76mm 1200mm f/l Refractor
60mm TASCO 7TE-5 1000mm f/16.7 Refractor 60mm TASCO 9TE 700mm f/l refractor
60mm TASCO 9TE-0 710mm f/l Refractor 50mm-TASCO 6TE-5 600mm f/l Refractor


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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: BarabinoSr]
      #3123541 - 05/23/09 09:58 PM Attachment (13 downloads)

Gary failed to mention that he also had his protege observing with him the night of August 16, 1970, who also sketched his first observation, which was of a partial Lunar Eclipse. That protege was me! Here is my first sketch/ observation. Gary posted his above. This joint observation launch the formation of the Vega Sky Center, former called the Vega Astronomical Observatory.

Mel

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5" (127mm) F/9.4 Home Built Refractor (under construction)
3.5" (90mm) F/11.1 "Vixen-Spec Modified" Konus Refractor
3.1" (80mm) F/6 Scopos ED APO Refractor
4.5" (114mm) F/8 Tasco 11te-5 Newtonian (under restoration)
2.4" (60mm) F/16.7 Tasco 7te-5 Refractor
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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: dawsonian2000]
      #3126524 - 05/25/09 03:20 PM

amazing, all amazing. It must be something to go back and read about previous observations. I have only just started to log, but I use a computer.

I am just starting out with sketching, I am planning M13 as my first if the skies clear tonight.

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: dawsonian2000]
      #3126732 - 05/25/09 05:23 PM

Gary and Mel,

Thank you for sharing those first sketches over here.

Very nice work.

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: rodelaet]
      #3127208 - 05/25/09 10:20 PM

Thanks Rony! It is amazing that we still have these first observations from so long ago. Gary introduced me into astronomy in July of 1970, and was also a powerful influence in my life as a mentor. We continue to this day (now approaching 40 years!) to stay in touch and to use our website as a research for budding and experience amateurs. It is our way of giving back for what we attained within this awesome endeavor.


Thanks again,

Mel

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The Vega Sky Center
10" (254mm) F/5.65 Home Built Fork Mounted Newtonian Reflector
5" (127mm) F/9.4 Home Built Refractor (under construction)
3.5" (90mm) F/11.1 "Vixen-Spec Modified" Konus Refractor
3.1" (80mm) F/6 Scopos ED APO Refractor
4.5" (114mm) F/8 Tasco 11te-5 Newtonian (under restoration)
2.4" (60mm) F/16.7 Tasco 7te-5 Refractor
2.4" (60mm) F/15 Jason Discoverer 313 Refractor

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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: rodelaet]
      #3134122 - 05/29/09 12:30 PM

Here's my first sketch (well, it's actually 2 sketches and I forget which one I made first). This was last summer when I was able to pick out all the stars of Scorpius. Once I had identified the scorpion's tail and had it lined up in the scope, I made a run for M6 and M7. I couldn't tell them apart, so I sketched them and then verified which was which after I went back in. This is in a 5" f/8 reflector with a 26mm EP under bad summer haze.

Here's M6 (there's a small sketch of Jupiter on there too):



And, here's M7:



Pretty bad, huh?


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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: Slartibartfast]
      #3165553 - 06/16/09 10:43 AM

Last night I did my first ever. I love looking at M13. Waited for the baseball diamond across the street to turn off the lights (blech! talk about light pollution!). Mag 6 or so skies. Lots of stray light from streetlights and porches. Seeing was pretty good. I'd say a 5 or 6. Used a Lightbridge 10" with an Orion Expanse 9mm ep. at 141x.



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Re: Post your very first sketch over here! new [Re: mitaccio]
      #3166686 - 06/16/09 09:57 PM

Mitaccio,

What a wonderful sketch of M13. You've captured the detail of the globular quite well. Very nicely done!

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