Location: Sahara Desert, Morocco

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Cold and stable atmosphere, seeing ~8/10

Instruments:

• 7×50 binoculars
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector

Targets:

• M45 (Pleiades)
• M42 (Orion Nebula)
• M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)

Observation notes:

Transparency improved after midnight and allowed longer visual work on faint deep-sky targets.

The larger telescope resolved dense clusters cleanly, while the refractor was used for wider fields and comparison views.

Lucille remarked that the sky in her dreams no longer felt distant; it felt attentive.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Maxime Dallois, Nicolas Artaud