Location: Pic du Midi foothills, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 7×50 binoculars

Targets:

• M13 (Hercules Cluster)
• M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• M45 (Pleiades)

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

Location: Mont Ventoux area, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• Mars
• Betelgeuse
• The Moon
• Polaris

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: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Claire Dumont, Julien Bertaud