Location: Plateau de Millevaches, France
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight
Instruments:
- 200mm Newtonian reflector
- 300mm Dobsonian reflector
- 7×50 binoculars
Targets:
- Venus
- M45 (Pleiades)
- NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
- Jupiter
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.
Members present: Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Julien Bertaud, Claire Dumont