Location: Sahara – Mali desert plateau

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 80mm refractor

Targets:

• Perseus star field
• Polaris
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• 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: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Maxime Dallois, Marc Lefèvre, Nicolas Artaud

Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Very dark sky (Bortle 2–3), light wind

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• Jupiter
• M45 (Pleiades)
• M57 (Ring Nebula)
• M13 (Hercules Cluster)

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, Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Antoine Delorme, Sophie Martin