Observation Session – 01 October 2016

Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10

Instruments:

  • 150mm Newtonian telescope
  • 80mm refractor
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

  • Saturn
  • Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
  • NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
  • M57 (Ring Nebula)

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, Sophie Martin, Paul Garnier