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How dark is dark?
I've had my scope for a few months now and I've just been setting it up in my residential backyard which has been great. We're far enough out of the city that the galactic plane is clearly visible and there are loads of clusters/nebulae I can see too. But last night I drove out to may mate's inlaws place which is a further hour away from the city in a rural area.
The problem was that even though it was dark, the sky was roughly the same, M6/7 clearly visible, I could see the dark lanes in the Triffid nebula through my 8" newtonian but not much more detail than I get in my own backyard.
I've been to Coonabarabran a few times and the sky there is fantastic, how far out of town do I have to go before the light pollution starts to drop away?
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