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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
You don't need to go to Broken Hill, and Broken Hill wasn't the only place where it wasn't raining. During the 21 days from Dec 19-Jan 9 when comet Leonard was putting on the big show, I had 15/21 perfectly clear nights and 1 partly cloudy night when late twilight was clear then thin cloud came in.
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Sounds nice, I left Sydney on the 4th of January, it was raining west of Cobar and cloudy until Wilcannia. Broken Hill was completely clear for my 5 nights there
The previous summer I went to Ivanhoe, but this time that was wet as well. Ivanhoe was better though as I sometimes stay in Airbnb's rather than camp and Ivanhoe is certainly darker than Broken Hill. If anyone goes to Broken Hill there is a lookout about 20km north of Silverton. It's flat and a couple of hundred feet above the plain, and around 50 km from Broken Hill so there is basically zero light pollution. However you need to setup and tear down every night, unless you want to be stuck in a tent at 45 degrees in the morning...
Paul