Observation Session – 13 June 2015

Location: Namib Desert, Namibia

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 80mm refractor
  • 7×50 binoculars
  • 100mm apochromatic refractor

Targets:

  • Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
  • Perseus star field
  • M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
  • Jupiter

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: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Claire Dumont