Location: Tenerife – Teide National Park, Spain

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10

Instruments:

• 80mm refractor
• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector

Targets:

• Betelgeuse
• Albireo
• Rigel
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)

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: Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Antoine Delorme, Marc Lefèvre