Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10
Instruments:
- 300mm Dobsonian reflector
- 80mm refractor
- 200mm Newtonian reflector
Targets:
- M13 (Hercules Cluster)
- Perseus star field
- Jupiter
- Mars
Observation notes:
Transparency improved after midnight and allowed longer visual work on faint deep-sky targets.
The larger telescope resolved dense clusters cleanly, while the refractor was used for wider fields and comparison views.
Lucille remarked that the sky in her dreams no longer felt distant; it felt attentive.
Members present: Maxime Dallois, Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Claire Dumont