I did allude that I was aware that it isnt critical in many area's David
just the ones I am interested in.
I dont want to go off topic, but waay back, when I was a very active visual planetary observer, I always thought that even the planets were much better when viewed from under dark and dust particle pollutant and heatsink conditions free country skies, colours in particular were better. not that that has anything to do with this subject, just an observation.
My former longtime residence was also a edge of suburbia type location, and altho i'm still not in the city exactly now, I fnd here its a loooong way from what I had with that previous backyard.
Also i fear that no-one will say an obvious reason why they dont get into pro-am, is it is that dreaded four letter word - W-O-R-K, and unpaid at that, I suspect that for most AA's, their time out under the stars is escape and release from W-O-R-K and daily presures (exept for imagers of all kinds LOL
) thats it in a nutshell really?
cheers