Observation Session – 14 January 2012

Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Very dark sky (Bortle 2–3), light wind

Instruments:

  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 80mm refractor
  • 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

  • Jupiter
  • M45 (Pleiades)
  • M57 (Ring Nebula)
  • M13 (Hercules Cluster)

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: Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Antoine Delorme, Sophie Martin