Observation Session – 05 March 2016

Location: Mont Ventoux area, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector
  • 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

  • Mars
  • Betelgeuse
  • The Moon
  • Polaris

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: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Claire Dumont, Julien Bertaud