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Originally Posted by Nikolas
Bundoora park at night? You are taking your life in your hands mate, Star in the back yard then if you do want to do darker sites drive up plenty road till you go past the burbs
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LOL. I thought the same. Yeah might go further up in the future once I have gained some experience in the backyard.
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Originally Posted by RyanJones
My advice would be to start in your backyard. Many of us image from our heavily light polluted backyards. Get an idea of how things work. Refine your setup. Work out how much battery power you’re goi g to need to run an imagining session. Get your guiding worked out. Basically try to iron out a mostly consistent process that you feel confident in before you start venturing out. Being put in the field and finding issues is an order of magnitude more frustrating than finding those issues at home.
When looking for a dark site or darker site, remember that you might eliminate annoying neighbours lights etc but sky glow is quite broad and covers whole areas. To get real benefits you are beat traveling further away from the suburbs where sky glow is significantly lower and remember that if your target is positioned over a lit area any less than about 45deg above the horizon, you’re still going to get the effects of light pollution.
Hope this helps
Ryan
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Thanks Ryan, good advice. Will stick to the backyard until I get some experience.