Wanted: Good dark Sky Sites in Victoria - Page 2

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #21 26-09-2006, 01:00 PM

I'm getting engulfed by Grey Matter!!!

John K · #22 26-09-2006, 02:47 PM

Looks like light polluting civilisation is slowly surrounding Snake Valley!
I bet in 20 years time we'll all have to go to Big Desert NP for really dark skies.

fringe_dweller · #23 26-09-2006, 03:15 PM

I hope all the little conservation parks dotted elsewhere around this great land arent like the ones we have investigated in SA.
They seem to be the spots that the early farmer/settlers couldnt easily use - ie too rocky and/or swampy, which isnt ideal for astronomy due to the immediate local microclimates these two features sometimes produce, specially in summer imo. And as some said - the obscuring treelines are bad too.
So in our very sporadic road trips we tend to go for random sneaky guerilla trips to outer remote farm land/paddocks - we dont leave anything but tripod prints anywayz, so no damage, and the farmers are asleep and none the wiser. We would almost never go to the same place twice, so its not a problem.

xstream (John) · #24 26-09-2006, 04:08 PM

John, Cresta Valley at Mount Buffalo is well worth the trip. Great Skies.
It's one spot we try to make it to a couple of times a year.
It's a pity the winter season destroys it for viewing.

John K · #25 26-09-2006, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by xstream

John, Cresta Valley at Mount Buffalo is well worth the trip. Great Skies.
It's one spot we try to make it to a couple of times a year.
It's a pity the winter season destroys it for viewing.

Thanks, had not thought about that location, excellent suggestion.
With Mt Buffalo Chalet closing down I guess it will mean less light pollution and less cars up on the Buffalo plains at night.