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27-11-2008, 09:40 AM
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I experienced a sky between 1 & 2 last year at our Dark Sky site south of Berrima in N.S.W.
At 60 degrees above the Horizon, The Helix Nebula (Mag 7.1) was visible as a naked eye object, not nearly or maybe, Blind Freddie could have seen it.
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