Observation Session – 06 November 2010

Location: Sahara Desert, Morocco

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 80mm refractor
  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

  • Rigel
  • Saturn
  • Betelgeuse
  • Polaris

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.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Antoine Delorme