Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 250mm Dobsonian telescope
• 80mm refractor
• 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

• The Moon
• M42 (Orion Nebula)
• Perseus star field
• M13 (Hercules Cluster)

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, Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Marc Lefèvre

Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 80mm refractor

Targets:

• M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
• Saturn
• The Moon
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)

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.

Lucille remarked that familiar stars seemed to possess abnormal depth, as if the field opened behind them rather than beyond them.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Marc Lefèvre, Paul Garnier