Location: Mont Ventoux area, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• Polaris
• Albireo
• M13 (Hercules Cluster)
• M45 (Pleiades)

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, Nicolas Artaud, Paul Garnier

Location: Tenerife – Teide National Park, Spain

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
• Rigel
• Saturn
• The Moon

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, Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Marc Lefèvre