Million star camping

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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Scott Murray said:
Too much moon will blow out the milkyway
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There was no moon out at all. New moon and it had set 4 hours earlier. We were about 20 miles from a major city and 10 miles away from a couple of smaller towns. To much light pollution. We are having to drive 1.5 hours to get to what should be dark skies. Using Dark Sky Finder to find dark sky in my area. If you look for Montgomery, Alabama on that map you will see what I am having to contend with. Going out to the National Parks around Moab, Utah in September and hope to find some really dark skies out there so want to practice some before I go.
 
Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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Don Kuykendall said:
There was no moon out at all. New moon and it had set 4 hours earlier. We were about 20 miles from a major city and 10 miles away from a couple of smaller towns. To much light pollution. We are having to drive 1.5 hours to get to what should be dark skies. Using Dark Sky Finder to find dark sky in my area. If you look for Montgomery, Alabama on that map you will see what I am having to contend with. Going out to the National Parks around Moab, Utah in September and hope to find some really dark skies out there so want to practice some before I go.
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Yeah i have looked at your area before and over the world. I am quite lucky in the area I live.

Look at all of our light pollution :)

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Bourbon Neat

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Great captures Scott, love to see your view of the night sky.

For those who would like to know.

In the (free to download) Stellarium software, you can load your coordinates to an exact location and save as whatever you like. Stellarium has a long list of places around the world in its data base. You will want to name your places beginning with AA so it will be at the head of the list and you won't have to scroll through.

It also has the handy time feature, adjust as you like to see the sky pretty close to how the sky will appear at the current location and whatever time you are checking. If you browse some of the cities from the list, you can see what the night sky should look like at the place and time of your choosing. The results are dramatically different near cities and out in the boonies.
 
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