Re: Visiting San Diego - observing advice pls

You call that light pollution!!! Seriously guys - you should stand just
outside Milton Keynes in the UK if you ever get the chance. You're
lucky to see any stars at all. It's like looking through 3 feet of
carrot soup! Thankfully I only work there and live under reasonably
dark rural skies 20 miles away...

However, looking up from my hotel balcony in Coronado (the Glorietta
Bay Inn) I was easily able to see mag 3.5 stars and down to mag 4+ with
effort. This was looking up and west. You may think you have bad light
pollution there, but compared to the UK, it seems your efforts to
preserve dark skies must be having SOME effect.

Sadly, work precluded a visit to the big scopes out in the mountains,
and I didn't get chance to buy binos either. I did discover that my
estimation of angular distances is pretty poor! San Diego is 20 degrees
further south than my home but had I not known this, I'd have estimated
the constellations to be 30 to 35 degrees higher! A huge discrepancy -
more practice needed.

Cheers
Beats

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