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laura halliday wrote:

Then book your flight. Oh, and you don't need to get
all that far from the big cities in Australia to get really
dark skies. The grasslands west of the Blue Mountains
are *very* dark.


Dark, yes, but still pretty soaking wet, even on the west side of the
Great Dividing Range. When I observed from the New South Wales club's
site near Wiruna, an April night that they called relatively dry was
unacceptably damp for me. I must be too spoiled by desert observing by
now.

I have limited data based on only four two-week vacations in Australia,
but my experience was that you wanted to be a couple hundred miles away
from the coast. Perhaps an Aussie can chime in with some advice on
where to go.

Tom

"Tom Polakis" wrote in message
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laura halliday wrote:

Then book your flight. Oh, and you don't need to get
all that far from the big cities in Australia to get really
dark skies. The grasslands west of the Blue Mountains
are *very* dark.


Dark, yes, but still pretty soaking wet, even on the west side of the
Great Dividing Range. When I observed from the New South Wales club's
site near Wiruna, an April night that they called relatively dry was
unacceptably damp for me. I must be too spoiled by desert observing by
now.

I have limited data based on only four two-week vacations in Australia,
but my experience was that you wanted to be a couple hundred miles away
from the coast. Perhaps an Aussie can chime in with some advice on
where to go.

Tom

G'day,
We're in the midst of a prolonged dry peiod. I live about 85km inland from
Byron Bay, Northern NSW Aust. We have clear, dark skies and it has only
rained about 4 times in the last six months.
Most of Australia is in drought. Southern states not so much so.
Come over some time.
pete