Location: Pic du Midi foothills, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 80mm refractor
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• Rigel
• M45 (Pleiades)
• 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: Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Claire Dumont, Antoine Delorme