Location: Alpes – Col de la Bonette, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Cold and stable atmosphere, seeing ~8/10

Instruments:

• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 150mm Newtonian telescope
• 7×50 binoculars

Targets:

• Venus
• Rigel
• M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)

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, Adama Traoré, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Marc Lefèvre, Sophie Martin

Location: Parc naturel du Vercors, France

Session duration: 2 nights

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

Instruments:

• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector
• 150mm Newtonian telescope

Targets:

• Betelgeuse
• Jupiter
• The Moon
• 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: Maxime Dallois, Adama Traoré, Paul Garnier, Nicolas Artaud