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Originally Posted by janoskiss
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.
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Whoa, Steve. Back up there a bit. I wasn't drawing conclusions or attempting to affect yours. You commented on a good observing site and a great night you had there and I responded with a story about great viewing from a site nearby. End of story. If I had been trying to draw conclusions I could have added that the rest of the 17 nights we were in the area were pretty ordinary. But why would I comment when my experience is next to nothing?