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