Observation Session – 30 April 2016

Location: Pic du Midi foothills, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Very dark sky (Bortle 2–3), light wind

Instruments:

  • 80mm refractor
  • 200mm Newtonian reflector
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

  • Perseus star field
  • M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
  • Polaris
  • Jupiter

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, Lucille Godefert, Paul Garnier, Antoine Delorme