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Originally Posted by ChrisM
Hi folks,
I'll be visiting Brisbane next month and am looking for suggestions of dark sky sites with a view to the North within a couple of hours of Brisbane - preferably West or NW of Brisbane.
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South West of Brisbane, there's the
Moogerah Dam
Some local astronomy groups regularly use that as a viewing site.
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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
Hi Chris,
There aren't any. SEQ is all light pollution.
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The map that Joe showed images of, is the
Light Pollution Map, using the World Atlas 2015 overlay to give an idea of the extent of how far the obvious LP extends.
When you compare the VIIRS data overlay for 2015, to 2022, things have gotten noticably worse. So the LP footprint the World Atlas 2015 overlay shows, would cover an even larger area.
I was out at Kalbar Observatory on the weekend just gone, and the sky glow from Brisbane and Ipswich was noticible as early as 30 to 45 minutes after sunset.
To get to a proper dark site in Queensland, you need to be ready to spend a few days on the road from Brisbane, first heading north to Rockhampton, then west from there out to Winton.