Observation Session – 11 September 2010

Location: Tenerife – Teide National Park, Spain

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 200mm Newtonian reflector
  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector
  • 80mm refractor

Targets:

  • M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
  • Rigel
  • Saturn
  • The Moon

Observation notes:

Transparency improved after midnight and allowed longer visual work on faint deep-sky targets.

The larger telescope resolved dense clusters cleanly, while the refractor was used for wider fields and comparison views.

Members present: Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Marc Lefèvre