Observation Session – 12 November 2016

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

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

Targets:

  • Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
  • M45 (Pleiades)
  • Saturn
  • Rigel

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, Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Nicolas Artaud