Location: Pyrenees – Gavarnie valley, France
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight
Instruments:
- 250mm Dobsonian telescope
- 7×50 binoculars
- 100mm apochromatic refractor
Targets:
- M13 (Hercules Cluster)
- Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
- M57 (Ring Nebula)
- Saturn
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.
Lucille remarked that the sky in her dreams no longer felt distant; it felt attentive.
Members present: Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Paul Garnier