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