Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France
Session duration: 2 nights
Sky conditions: Moderate turbulence, seeing ~6/10
Instruments:
- 7×50 binoculars
- 200mm Newtonian reflector
- 100mm apochromatic refractor
Targets:
- M57 (Ring Nebula)
- Double Cluster (NGC 869/884)
- M45 (Pleiades)
- Albireo
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, Lucille Godefert, Nicolas Artaud, Antoine Delorme