Observation Session – 11 February 2012

Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 100mm apochromatic refractor
  • 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

  • M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
  • Albireo
  • 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: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Lina Chevalier