Location: Plateau de Valensole, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 80mm refractor

Targets:

• Albireo
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• Saturn
• 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: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Sophie Martin, Paul Garnier

Location: Mont Ventoux area, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

• M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)
• Perseus star field
• M57 (Ring Nebula)
• 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.

Repeated checks of alignment suggested the instruments were functioning correctly, though the viewed field still felt subtly unstable.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Paul Garnier