"So basically dark skies are like beauty..."There in the eyes of the beholder"
LOL yep!
Dark skies depend on a few other variants too i guess - i find with my 25mw lazer pointer in the suburbs - you see an awful lot of dust particles in the beams path (looks like they are burning as some people say) but in the country I struggle to see many dust particles in the beams path, normally, which makes the beam a bit dimmer of course. Even during a full moon I find country skies are much better for observing due to the lack of pollution/dust particles being lit up (yes i have gone out for meteor showers during full moons!)
Kearn