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Originally Posted by Leo.G
That's stunning Joe!
You didn't mention where you live any more than 10 seconds and the entire camera mechanism and lens is frozen. I spent 4 winters in Young (sadly 4 summers too, I don't travel well in the heat). The winter skies were AMAZINGlY clear. I lived in Emily Street on the golf club side of town with minimal light pollution back till April 2000 but I didn't spend much time out at night in winter with a telescope or camera though I only had 35mm like most people then.
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Hi Leo,
I'm not sure what you mean by, "You didn't mention where you live any more than 10 seconds and the entire camera mechanism and lens is frozen." Are you saying that your camera doesn't work below zero?
I've used my Pentax DSLR's down to -23C in the Arctic without problems. My Liquid Crystal display freezes below -20C but the camera still works fine you just can't preview or read settings. You can still see settings inside the camera. Certainly no problems operating the cameras in SE NSW between 0C and -5C.
Young has more LP these days than when you lived there however, I live way out of town, sort of midway between Young, Grenfell and Cowra closer to Young. We got a -5C last week but that's rare and compared to Canberra, it's always several degrees warmer. My house is set up on a hill above many fogs not down in a frost hollow. Really big fogs do get up here but most just sit down below.
On the 2015 LP map, I'm on a border between a notional Bortle 1 and Bortle 2 zone. Actual conditions vary from Bortle 1 to 4 mainly depending upon sky transparency.
LP hasn't been increasing much over the past decade around here. Young LP has expanded to the east but not north. Rural land isn't allowed to be subdivided limiting expansion to the north.
Cheers
Joe
