Location: Atacama Desert, Chile
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10
Instruments:
- 80mm refractor
- 7×50 binoculars
- 250mm Dobsonian telescope
Targets:
- Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
- M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
- Perseus star field
- M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
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.
Ayoub Berrabeh noted that the silence of the site felt disproportionate to the open terrain, as if sound were being absorbed above the group.
Members present: Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Paul Garnier