I'm missing my dark skies back home
, Yes, we do have a few places left in the UK with reasonably dark skies
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I'm fortunate to live in rural village, that has no street lighting, and can see the Milky Way.
There's quite a bit of light pollution around the Warnbro/Rockingham area, where' I'm staying while in WA.
Having said that, get far enough out of town in WA, and the skies really are dark, superb in fact!!.
Only have my 15x70 binos with me, but hoping to 'track down' a few southern hemisphere DSOs, once the Moon gets out of the way.
Dave