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