Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Excellent transparency after midnight

Instruments:

• 7×50 binoculars
• 250mm Dobsonian telescope
• 100mm apochromatic refractor

Targets:

• Perseus star field
• M42 (Orion Nebula)
• M45 (Pleiades)
• Venus

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.

A long visual sweep and one test exposure suggested a very thin dark line crossing part of the star field, but the effect could not be reproduced consistently.

Members present: Adama Traoré, Maxime Dallois, Lucille Godefert, Ayoub Berrabeh, Julien Bertaud