Location: Alpes – Col de la Bonette, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10

Instruments:

• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 7×50 binoculars

Targets:

• Rigel
• The Moon
• 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.

Members present: Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Antoine Delorme