Location: Sahara – Mali desert plateau

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 250mm Dobsonian telescope
• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

• Jupiter
• Rigel
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Albireo

Observation notes:

The observation session felt unusually focused, with repeated returns to the same fields and repeated instrument checks despite stable conditions.

Several members remarked that familiar regions of the sky appeared difficult to describe in ordinary observational terms.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Paul Garnier, Claire Dumont