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Originally Posted by ngcles
Hi Timo,
Welcome to our little southern hemisphere forum.
It is a coincidence you mention this as I spent a little time a couple of weeks ago searching for this bridge at Mudgee NSW on a night where the SQM-L reading at Zenith hovered around the 21.85-90 mark pretty much all night and peaked at 21.91 a little after midnight.
After reading your earlier accounts of it on the AMASTRO mailing list, I made a point of looking for it and came away disappointed to have not detected it.
Is the sketch by Gaponskin on-line somewhere so I can get a better appreciation of its appearance than words can convey?
Have been looking for it on and off for a few years now -- will continue to look -- good on you Timo and welcome!
Best,
Les D
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Hi Les,
Unfortunately, I haven't seen the sketches by Gaposhkin either! I only got this information from Dave Riddle in the thread a year ago in Amastro forum. I have never seen a sketch or a photo of the feature but the accounts of Skiff and Riddle exactly match mine.
It's very strange that this light has not been imaged. I hope someone takes the challenge and photographs this in a wide-field photo that frames the area between LMC and the Milky Way in Triangulum Australe / Norma. If the entire zodiacal band can be caught on a photo, then the LMC bridge should be caught as well.
I saw the LMC bridge also from a slightly inferior site with the sky darkness SQM-L 21.93 (ZLM 7.4+). It took me 13 trips south of the equator to see this elusive thing.
/Timo Karhula