Location: Arizona desert, USA
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10
Instruments:
- 100mm apochromatic refractor
- 80mm refractor
- 7×50 binoculars
Targets:
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Rigel
- Perseus star field
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: Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Marc Lefèvre, Paul Garnier