Observation Session – 06 October 2012

Location: Pic du Midi foothills, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

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

Targets:

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

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: Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Marc Lefèvre