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Old 09-02-2021, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by garymck View Post
... Skies at the zenith are black - I saw the milky way for the first time in 8 years last week!! Getting my motivation back.
Sounds like a great move Gary From roughly where you said you were and now are you've gone from a Bortle 6 sky (~12x Dark Sky) to something like a Bortle 4 sky (~2x Dark Sky). That would be wonderful.

As to where to put your pier - perhaps location 1 or 3, but more southerly (towards the house) if possible, but that depends upon how low you'd like to view, perhaps even at location 1 or 3 you might still see say 50 degrees and above. Anyway I'd say it's a nice problem to have. Perhaps an observatory close to/attached to the house?

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