Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10

Instruments:

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

Targets:

• The Moon
• Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
• M42 (Orion Nebula)
• Betelgeuse

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: Adama Traoré, Lucille Godefert, Sophie Martin