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Originally Posted by astronut
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.  |
There is hope for me yet then. I'm going camping next Thursday at a site about 450 kms from Brisbane and about 25kms from the nearest town that has a population of about 900 people. The closest large town is about 80kms away with a population of 12,000. I've been camping there quite a few times but not since I've been interested in astronomy, so I didn't really take much notice of the sky at night.
Helix Nebula naked eye, that would be awesome
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