Observation Session – 30 May 2015

Location: Cévennes National Park, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 200mm Newtonian reflector
  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector
  • 80mm refractor

Targets:

  • M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
  • NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
  • Rigel
  • Betelgeuse

Observation notes:

The observation session felt unusually focused, with repeated returns to the same fields and repeated instrument checks despite stable conditions.

Several members remarked that familiar regions of the sky appeared difficult to describe in ordinary observational terms.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lina Chevalier, Antoine Delorme