Observation Session – 18 June 2011

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 7×50 binoculars
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

  • Perseus star field
  • M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
  • Rigel
  • 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, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Julien Bertaud, Sophie Martin