Location: Pyrenees – Gavarnie valley, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Very dark sky (Bortle 2–3), light wind

Instruments:

• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 7×50 binoculars
• 80mm refractor

Targets:

• M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
• Venus
• 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.

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: Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Sophie Martin