Observation Session – 02 July 2011

Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 100mm apochromatic refractor
  • 80mm refractor
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

  • Saturn
  • Polaris
  • NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
  • M57 (Ring Nebula)

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, Paul Garnier