Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

• M42 (Orion Nebula)
• M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
• M13 (Hercules Cluster)
• Rigel

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, Lina Chevalier

Location: Auvergne volcanic plateau, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 7×50 binoculars
• 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

• Betelgeuse
• Saturn
• The Moon
• M57 (Ring Nebula)

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.

Ayoub Berrabeh noted that the silence of the site felt disproportionate to the open terrain, as if sound were being absorbed above the group.

Members present: Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lina Chevalier