Location: Arizona desert, USA

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10

Instruments:

• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 100mm apochromatic refractor

Targets:

• Perseus star field
• M45 (Pleiades)
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• Betelgeuse

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, Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Antoine Delorme, Lina Chevalier