Location: Sahara – Mali desert plateau

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Cold and stable atmosphere, seeing ~8/10

Instruments:

• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 7×50 binoculars
• 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

• The Moon
• Venus
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• M33 (Triangulum 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.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Claire Dumont