Observation Session – 29 December 2012

Location: Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10

Instruments:

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

Targets:

  • The Moon
  • Venus
  • NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
  • 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, Paul Garnier, Nicolas Artaud