Observation Session – 17 September 2016

Location: Plateau de Valensole, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

  • 150mm Newtonian telescope
  • 200mm Newtonian reflector
  • 80mm refractor

Targets:

  • Albireo
  • Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
  • Saturn
  • 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: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Sophie Martin, Paul Garnier