Well...yet another spectacularly clear night up here. I did some more extensive measuring of the sky darkness with the SQM-L meter and although the sky on Mon night was perhaps juuust a touch better (a rain and snow front had passed through the couple of days before ), the results were never the less, pretty amazing and consistent with those taken on Mon and Tues nights. This time I took multiple (several dozen) readings all around the zenith (within an approx 15deg or one handspan radius) between 1am and 2am. This is the time of year at this hour when the Sagittarius winter Milky Way sits on the western horizon and the Orion Summer milky Way sits on the Eastern horizon and the whole length of the Milky Way in between, stretches right around the southern horizon, plus the very faint
Zodiacal bridge was plainly visible north of overhead following the ecliptic, looking like a second, faint Milky Way! All making for a truly spectacular vista allround! Of the dozens of SQM readings taken the bulk were between 22.13 and 22.18 which is pretty amazing and about as dark as it gets anywhere. That's three nights of testing now, all returning similar results, so I think that well and truly confirms Eagleview as a World Class dark sky observing site! Happy Chappy
