Location: Namib Desert, Namibia

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 80mm refractor
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 100mm apochromatic refractor

Targets:

• Perseus star field
• M13 (Hercules Cluster)
• Venus
• Jupiter

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: Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Julien Bertaud, Lina Chevalier

Location: Mont Ventoux area, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Cold and stable atmosphere, seeing ~8/10

Instruments:

• 80mm refractor
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope

Targets:

• Polaris
• Albireo
• M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)

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.

One observer briefly described a motionless silhouette on the lunar limb while changing eyepieces; the impression lasted only a moment.

Lucille remarked that familiar stars seemed to possess abnormal depth, as if the field opened behind them rather than beyond them.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Maxime Dallois, Julien Bertaud, Nicolas Artaud