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