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Old 18-02-2016, 07:16 AM
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HI SAb

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Originally Posted by pgc hunter View Post
Great Obs Les and good to see you posting again! That sound like some near damn perfect skies. That's a productive session for 2 hours, let me guess, Argo Navis?
Yep, Argonavis. Wouldn't be without DSC. I can find just about anything in the sky the "old fashioned way", but good DSCs mean I spend all my time looking through the ep rather than the finderscope.

It is an excellent site and living here means It takes me all of 7-8 minutes from start to observing. There is a website here:

http://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#z...yers=B0TFFFTTT

where SQM and SQM-L users can record their readings all around the globe. If you find the town of Orange in NSW, then Canowindra to the South, my home is about midway between Gooloogong and Billimari where there are lots of little black dots. That's me. On Moonless nights I normally obtain a reading around the 21.9 to 22.0 mags/arcsecond^2 mark at zenith. The best reading so far is 22.23 with several in the 22.1 to 22.2 bracket.

In summary, it is a deep sky observers paradise.

Best,

L.
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