Observation Session – 03 October 2015

Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 200mm Newtonian reflector
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector

Targets:

  • M45 (Pleiades)
  • Perseus star field
  • Mars
  • Rigel

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, Maxime Dallois, Nicolas Artaud, Julien Bertaud