Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10
Instruments:
- 80mm refractor
- 100mm apochromatic refractor
- 300mm Dobsonian reflector
Targets:
- M13 (Hercules Cluster)
- Saturn
- M45 (Pleiades)
- Polaris
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.
Repeated checks of alignment suggested the instruments were functioning correctly, though the viewed field still felt subtly unstable.
Members present: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Paul Garnier, Claire Dumont