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Originally Posted by ausastronomer
I note the highest reading from Australia is 22.07 from outside Mullawa in WA, which is about 100km West of Geraldton and 500km North of Perth. I have no doubt it's right. There are 3 men and a dog per 1,000 square km out there. But not close to the equal of several readings in CONUS? I note the highest reading from New Zealand is 22.02 from Benmore Peak Observatory. Again I have no doubt it's correct as indicated in one of my earlier posts. But again not close to the equal of several readings in CONUS? I suggest some of you revisit that light pollution map.
Cheers,
John B
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Hi all,
It was me who submitted the SQM-L 22.07 reading from outside Mullewa, W.A. I visited a remote farm together with Finnish amateur astronomers in December 2009 to do some really dark DeepSky-observations. They had also a SQM which showed 22.09 as best. In a series of three readings I got 22.01, 22.02 and 22.07. That was when I pointed to a relatively "blank" region of the sky, not the Milky Way or the zodiacal light. From here we observed the Light bridge between LMC and the Milky way. See my thread
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=68088
From my regular observing site here in Sweden, the SQM-L has shown 21.48 at most and my naked eye limiting magnitude was 7.4. My Australian site is way darker than that!
/Timo Karhula