Location: Plateau de Valensole, France
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Cold and stable atmosphere, seeing ~8/10
Instruments:
- 250mm Dobsonian telescope
- 100mm apochromatic refractor
- 300mm Dobsonian reflector
Targets:
- Jupiter
- The Moon
- M13 (Hercules Cluster)
- Betelgeuse
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.
Repeated checks of alignment suggested the instruments were functioning correctly, though the viewed field still felt subtly unstable.
Members present: Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Antoine Delorme, Paul Garnier