Observation Session – 13 May 2017

Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 80mm refractor
  • 100mm apochromatic refractor
  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector

Targets:

  • M13 (Hercules Cluster)
  • Saturn
  • M45 (Pleiades)
  • 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.

Repeated checks of alignment suggested the instruments were functioning correctly, though the viewed field still felt subtly unstable.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Paul Garnier, Claire Dumont