Observation Session – 09 July 2016

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 80mm refractor
  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

  • Jupiter
  • NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
  • Polaris
  • Perseus star field

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, Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Antoine Delorme, Paul Garnier