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