Location: Atacama Desert, Chile

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 7×50 binoculars

Targets:

• Venus
• Perseus star field
• M13 (Hercules Cluster)
• Betelgeuse

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, Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Marc Lefèvre

Location: Sahara – Mali desert plateau

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 7×50 binoculars

Targets:

• Perseus star field
• The Moon
• Jupiter
• M45 (Pleiades)

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, Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Lina Chevalier

Location: Plateau de Valensole, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 80mm refractor
• 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Betelgeuse
• Perseus star field
• The Moon

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: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Nicolas Artaud