How much difference does a dark site make?

[middy]

The wide field shots I take in my back yard in suburban Brisbane peak at mag 10 stars. How much lower could I expect to get at a dark site out of the city?

[janoskiss]

mag 12

[middy]

Cheers :thumbsup:

[ving]

and visually a huge difference! :)

[h0ughy]

I found that there were too many things to look at, didn't know where I was because there were so many stars.

[iceman]

For widefield photography, it makes a HUGE difference. Much richer clusters and dust clouds in the milky way.

[ving]

houghy is right, my first trip to a dark site i found myself lost, there were just SOOOOO MANY STARS!!! I looked for orion which is pretty easy to spot and it was filled with so many stars i had problems distinguishing it... i was very new to telescopes at the time tho :)