Location: Cévennes National Park, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 7×50 binoculars
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

• Saturn
• The Moon
• Jupiter
• Albireo

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.

The group returned several times to the same region because the first impression could not be dismissed, yet no conventional explanation was agreed upon.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Nicolas Artaud, Paul Garnier

Location: Alpes – Col de la Bonette, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

• Jupiter
• Mars
• M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
• Albireo

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, Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Sophie Martin