Observation Session – 23 January 2016

Location: Namib Desert, Namibia

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

  • 250mm Dobsonian telescope
  • 150mm Newtonian telescope
  • 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

  • M42 (Orion Nebula)
  • Albireo
  • M13 (Hercules Cluster)
  • The Moon

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: Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Lina Chevalier, Nicolas Artaud