Observation Session – 28 January 2012

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