Observation Session – 20 November 2010

Location: Cévennes National Park, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 200mm Newtonian reflector
  • 100mm apochromatic refractor
  • 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

  • Rigel
  • NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
  • M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
  • Betelgeuse

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: Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Paul Garnier