Location: Pic du Midi foothills, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Very dark sky (Bortle 2–3), light wind

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• Polaris
• Perseus star field
• M13 (Hercules Cluster)
• Albireo

Observation notes:

Sky conditions were nearly ideal, with excellent transparency and very little atmospheric turbulence.

Despite the quality of the night, no satellite passages were noted for an unusually long interval.

The sky felt empty tonight.

Members present: Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Antoine Delorme, Julien Bertaud

Location: Plateau de Valensole, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Very dark sky (Bortle 2–3), light wind

Instruments:

• 250mm Dobsonian telescope
• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 200mm Newtonian reflector

Targets:

• Perseus star field
• Mars
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• Albireo

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: Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Adama Traoré, Marc Lefèvre, Antoine Delorme