Location: Quercy Dark Sky Reserve, France

Session duration: 2 nights

Sky conditions: Clear sky, low humidity, seeing ~7/10

Instruments:

• 100mm apochromatic refractor
• 200mm Newtonian reflector
• 300mm Dobsonian reflector

Targets:

• Jupiter
• M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
• NGC 7000 (North America Nebula)
• Polaris

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: Ayoub Berrabeh, Lucille Godefert, Julien Bertaud, Paul Garnier