Observation Session – 16 June 2012

Location: Plateau de Valensole, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

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

Targets:

  • Perseus star field
  • Betelgeuse
  • Polaris
  • Mars

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, Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Nicolas Artaud