Location: Mont Ventoux area, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 7×50 binoculars
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 80mm refractor

Targets:

• M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• 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.

Several members described a thin fissure-like distortion in the deep sky, visible only for a few seconds before the field returned to normal.

Members present: Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Adama Traoré, Sophie Martin

Location: Auvergne volcanic plateau, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• Betelgeuse
• Venus
• M42 (Orion Nebula)
• Saturn

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, Antoine Delorme