Location: Cévennes National Park, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Cold and stable atmosphere, seeing ~8/10

Instruments:

• 80mm refractor
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Rigel
• M42 (Orion Nebula)

Observation notes:

Planetary and deep-sky observation proceeded under calm conditions, with most of the session devoted to visual comparison between the larger reflector and the refractor.

Several members made sketches in the field notebook and compared the apparent brightness of bright stars against previous entries.

Members present: Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Paul Garnier