Location: Pic du Midi foothills, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 7×50 binoculars
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

• Mars
• Albireo
• 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.

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: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Paul Garnier, Sophie Martin

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10

Instruments:

• 80mm refractor
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope
• 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• M45 (Pleiades)
• Saturn
• Rigel

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, Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Nicolas Artaud