Location: Plateau de Valensole, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 100mm apochromatic refractor

Targets:

• Mars
• 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: Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Paul Garnier

Location: Tenerife – Teide National Park, Spain

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 7×50 binoculars
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope
• 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

• M13 (Hercules Cluster)
• Jupiter
• 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.

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