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Originally Posted by bigjoe
Wow..And I thought my 5 acre semi rural retreat at Castlereagh with house were nice..Looks like a dream Mike ..All the best
Bigjoe
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Well, funny you should say that Joe
...Castlereagh is about 55km from the Sydney CBD, so the last time Sydney had a population size the same as Canberra has today, was back at the end of the 19th century, so, had you been, I imagine a farmer (?), way out in what would have been regarded as the sticks then (and a full days travel by horse and cart from Circular Quay) in the 1890's, you would have certainly enjoyed Bortle class 1 skies and an SQM of 22+ from there too
...especially given Sydney had far fewer lights per capita back then! It would have been a truly excellent dark sky
....but not from the vantage point of 1450m AMSL of course
Mike