Location: Pyrenees – Gavarnie valley, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

• 250mm Dobsonian telescope
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

• Mars
• M57 (Ring Nebula)
• Rigel
• Albireo

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: Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Julien Bertaud, Marc Lefèvre