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Martin Baxter
 
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Default A star to steer by!

Joe wrote:

Many have never seen a dark sky......... Thats criminal.

The map says I'm not going to see many stars until I get offshore 5-10
miles min around here.

Running the Gulf it often becomes easy to navigate by cities glowing
over the horizion.
Freeport has an orange glow, Galveston white, Sargent yellow dimish,
from 30 +miles out

Check out this cool map here to see how dark your skies a

http://www.darksky.org/darksky/darksky_map.html


Thanks Joe, I'm fortunate, limiting magnitude is 6.7 where I am, does't
get too much better anywhere else.

Cheers
Marty
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