Observation Session – 22 September 2012

Location: Mont Ventoux area, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 7×50 binoculars
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector

Targets:

  • M13 (Hercules Cluster)
  • Venus
  • Saturn
  • 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: Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Julien Bertaud

Observation Session – 08 September 2012

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 80mm refractor
  • 100mm apochromatic refractor
  • 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

  • M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
  • Saturn
  • Polaris
  • Perseus star field

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, Lucille Godefert, Lina Chevalier, Claire Dumont