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Joe Cipriano
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Re: Light Pollution Rating
03/01/08 01:20 PM
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I'm extremely fortunate to live in a very rural area, with only one neighbor. My night skies average mid 21. SQM.
Carol
I don't think there's a 21 SQL in my entire state. I'd have to drive over 7 hrs (400mi) to northern Wisconsin to get skies that dark; the Iowa Star Party site is a little closer - 6h30m (about 390mi) away.
Not exagerating or looking for sympathy by any means, but I can read my equipment instruction manuals in my backyard at 2am by ambient light...
Just ain't worth it.
-------------------- In the Land of Eternal Light Pollution & Great Pizza (Chicago)
SN-6, ED80, WO 66SD
Meade 208xt, SBIG ST-4
D70 (modified)
CGE (way modified)
A Wife who understands (unmodified)
Some other stuff...
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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