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Old 29-01-2021, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by a5tarman View Post
Has anyone here found or know of decent safe locations around Adelaide for observing within 30mins to an hour drive of the CBD?
Hi 5tarman,

Depending on Traffic that 30/60 min away might be maybe 30-50km from the CBD. If so then anywhere in a light blue/Blue/violet/grey/charcoal-black zone would be possible in the lightpollution.info excerpt image below.. The light blue border I checked the sky brightness levels showed an SQM of 21.8 which is reasonably dark, although there's certainly much darker on the map in the grey & charcoal/black shaded areas.
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To put that in to perspective that SQM reading of 21.8 is equivalent to a sky brightness of 204 µcd/m2, which isn't that far from the natural (perfect dark site) sky brightness of around 170 odd µcd/m2 and a far cry from the Sky brightness in the Adelaide CBD which is 20 times higher with a brightness of 4060 µcd/m2 !!!

So depending on where you are, perhaps just Travel East from the CBD. As for safety, who knows? Perhaps travel with friend/s to a remote area or friend's farm, maybe even stay at a local motel and setup next to your room without external lights about. As an aside, we did a Moto tour of SA, and found Kangaroo Island very dark.


Good luck in your travels....

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JA

Last edited by JA; 29-01-2021 at 02:37 PM.
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