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Originally Posted by mental4astro
No guess work, Ken. Werribee will in no way have the same sky as my place in inner Sydney. It doesn't take that much to see Werribee is not in inner Melbourne to gauge the quality of its sky. When you struggle to make out the five main contonent stars of the Southern Cross, you have a rough sky.
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One of our members lives in Werribee and HE says . . . .
If an experienced Amatuer tells me he can't see these objects in his 10" Dob from his house in Werribee who am I to doubt his word.
I do know that Werribee is waaayyyy over-lit.
But I don't know if they are visible or not.
That's why I said
HE says.
Also, being in the centre of Sydney doesn't necessarily give you worse sky than other places like . . say Werribee.
There is a place about 15k from here out further into the dark sky country, it is about 100 acres of floodlit mining property. It is surrounded by Black sky and not a streetlight within a radius of over 10k, but for about 2k in any direction and you can't even make out Crux properly.
It is more a point of light concentration rather than size of town.
Maybe our member lives in a heavily light concentrated part of Werribee.
Some suburbs in Melbourne have slightly better sky than other suburbs. so even 'Melbourne' can't be stuck in a 'light pollution' nutshell.
Even here in my Dark town I can go up the road 1k and not see anything in the sky except Rigal Kentaurus and Venus.
Levels are different everywhere.
I'm not having a go at you, but do notice I did say 'HE' says
