Location: Alpes – Col de la Bonette, France
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Cold and stable atmosphere, seeing ~8/10
Instruments:
- 80mm refractor
- 250mm Dobsonian telescope
- 200mm Newtonian reflector
Targets:
- M57 (Ring Nebula)
- M42 (Orion Nebula)
- The Moon
- M13 (Hercules Cluster)
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.
Lucille remarked that familiar stars seemed to possess abnormal depth, as if the field opened behind them rather than beyond them.
Members present: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Sophie Martin