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Originally Posted by ausastronomer
Hi Lance,
Coona has the advantage of protection from light pollution within a 200km radius of the AAT at Siding Springs, which is about 30km out of Coona. They have a light pollution protection policy where every external light within a 200km radius of the AAT has to have a top cover preventing any light shining upwards. It works very well. Cheers,
John B
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I can second that: like John, I'm also a regular 'pilgrim' to Coona, and when I was there last December I was told that there are plans to extend the radius to 250 km.
However... indeed, the elevation ranges only between 450 and 600 meters - we don't have anything like 12,500 ft in Oz... And as I found out on my last visit- when the clouds do roll in they can linger around for days on end...
