Observation Session – 05 August 2017

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

  • 100mm apochromatic refractor
  • 300mm Dobsonian reflector
  • 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

  • Betelgeuse
  • Jupiter
  • The Moon
  • Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)

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, Adama Traoré, Paul Garnier, Nicolas Artaud