John wrote:

ok, so I'm thinking of migrating south from New York. Where can I find
statistics that tell me where I can get the maximum sky (darkness and
clearness)? I am SO sick of New York skys and looking at sky events I can't
see month after miserable month.

Sick enough to go buy you some property near Quemado, NM or Fort Davis,
TX and do this for real? You want dark and clear, you gots to move way
southwest.

Voice of experience - burned the note in 1993 on 8 acres in the
mountains 6 miles south of McDonald Observatory. Good as it gets.
Mike