Observation Session – 15 October 2016

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector
  • 100mm apochromatic refractor
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

  • Saturn
  • Rigel
  • M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
  • Betelgeuse

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: Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Sophie Martin