Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 80mm refractor
• 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

• Rigel
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Betelgeuse
• M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)

Observation notes:

The observation session felt unusually focused, with repeated returns to the same fields and repeated instrument checks despite stable conditions.

Several members remarked that familiar regions of the sky appeared difficult to describe in ordinary observational terms.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Lina Chevalier

Location: Arizona desert, USA

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 80mm refractor
• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

• Betelgeuse
• M45 (Pleiades)
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• Jupiter

Observation notes:

The observation session felt unusually focused, with repeated returns to the same fields and repeated instrument checks despite stable conditions.

Several members remarked that familiar regions of the sky appeared difficult to describe in ordinary observational terms.

Lucille remarked that familiar stars seemed to possess abnormal depth, as if the field opened behind them rather than beyond them.

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