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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
Interesting comment. In February we camped at Kelly's Tree, which is not far to the east of Mt Samaria and at 800m elevation. There is a large, basically flat, clearing in the centre of the camping area big enough for a dozen scopes. We were there for five nights and two of them were great, in fact one was superb. [...]
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I speak from my experience, you speak from yours. I have spent ~10 years and 100s of nights chasing dark skies. I've also regularly looked at weather patterns and data from meteorological agencies, satellites and so on. The trend seems to be in the direction of less transparency in summer skies of Victoria. I would bet about 10 to 1 that this is in fact the case but I'd not be willing to offer better odds. (In technical terms, in my best judgement I have a 1.6-sigma result --- I am 90% sure I am right and reckon there is 10% chance I'm wrong). Adding your one-night-experience data point to my findings does not significantly impact on my conclusions.