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Originally Posted by Sgtfretsurfer
Actually i considered contacting ASWA a little while back, but i had a look on their website and found that they do deep sky viewing nights in parkerville. i decided against contacting them because i thought the skies would be just as light polluted there as in chittering, perhaps more so (i havent heard any nasty stories about the bad blood between the rival astro gangs lol)
Its interesting to hear that ASWA has a new location in development. Do you have any idea where abouts it is?
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Yes, the new site is at Tammin. It's not a super secret but until the paperwork is finalised not a lot is being said about it.
I'm deep sky section leader for ASWA and I'm not happy with Parkerville either. It certainly is light polluted and has a few other problems and I'm on the hunt for another site at the moment too. What usually happens is a site is found, it's used for a few years then some change eventuates that means we have to move on. So it's been an ongoing saga the whole time I've been an active amatuer.
It sounds like the farm at York will be your immediate answer, but do contact rogerg if you want to go places with company. We are constantly on the look out for suitable observing locations at various distances from Perth and he knows a few good ones further out from the city.