Location: Cévennes National Park, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

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

Targets:

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

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, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lina Chevalier, Paul Garnier

Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

• 7×50 binoculars
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 100mm apochromatic refractor

Targets:

• M57 (Ring Nebula)
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• M45 (Pleiades)
• Albireo

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: Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Nicolas Artaud, Antoine Delorme