Observation Session – 25 September 2010

Location: Mont Ventoux area, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 150mm Newtonian telescope
  • 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

  • Polaris
  • Albireo
  • M13 (Hercules Cluster)
  • M45 (Pleiades)

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, Lucille Godefert, Nicolas Artaud, Paul Garnier