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