Location: Cévennes National Park, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector

Targets:

• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
• Betelgeuse
• 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: Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Adama Traoré, Sophie Martin