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Originally Posted by skysurfer
Good article !
Despite Australia being the darkest (except Antarctica) continent of all this is bad news. Please keep Australia dark !
When you are 100km outside SYD (e.g. the Blue Mountains) it is pitch dark.
Here in Holland it is one of the most light polluted areas in the world beside Guangzhou/Hongkong or Shanghai while the rest of China is relatively dark compared to W-Europe or eastern N-America.
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These days you need to drive for about 1.5-2 hours to get to a really dark sky outside of Sydney it is so bad. It restricts your deep sky observing to the weekends if you live near the city. However, having seen the night sky in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Holland, it really isnt so bad here.
