Location: Pyrenees – Gavarnie valley, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 7×50 binoculars
• 100mm apochromatic refractor

Targets:

• Mars
• Perseus star field
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Betelgeuse

Observation notes:

Transparency improved after midnight and allowed longer visual work on faint deep-sky targets.

The larger telescope resolved dense clusters cleanly, while the refractor was used for wider fields and comparison views.

Members present: Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Antoine Delorme

Location: Plateau de Valensole, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• Perseus star field
• Jupiter
• M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
• M57 (Ring Nebula)

Observation notes:

Transparency improved after midnight and allowed longer visual work on faint deep-sky targets.

The larger telescope resolved dense clusters cleanly, while the refractor was used for wider fields and comparison views.

Members present: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Sophie Martin

Location: Cévennes National Park, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Very dark sky (Bortle 2–3), light wind

Instruments:

• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 80mm refractor

Targets:

• M13 (Hercules Cluster)
• Rigel
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Polaris

Observation notes:

Transparency improved after midnight and allowed longer visual work on faint deep-sky targets.

The larger telescope resolved dense clusters cleanly, while the refractor was used for wider fields and comparison views.

Members present: Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Antoine Delorme, Julien Bertaud