Location: Alpes – Col de la Bonette, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• Betelgeuse
• 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.

Several members described a thin fissure-like distortion in the deep sky, visible only for a few seconds before the field returned to normal.

Members present: Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Marc Lefèvre, Lina Chevalier