Location: Sahara – Mali desert plateau
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Cold and stable atmosphere, seeing ~8/10
Instruments:
- 250mm Dobsonian telescope
- 80mm refractor
- 7×50 binoculars
Targets:
- M45 (Pleiades)
- Saturn
- Albireo
- NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
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: Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Marc Lefèvre