Location: Alpes – Col de la Bonette, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Saturn
• 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.

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, Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Adama Traoré, Nicolas Artaud

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 80mm refractor
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

• Jupiter
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Polaris
• Perseus star field

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, Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Antoine Delorme, Paul Garnier