Observation Session – 07 January 2017

Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 7×50 binoculars
  • 200mm Newtonian reflector
  • 100mm apochromatic refractor

Targets:

  • M57 (Ring Nebula)
  • Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
  • M45 (Pleiades)
  • Albireo

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, Nicolas Artaud, Antoine Delorme