Many towns are well in the 21st century light-pollution-wise. The darkest skies I've ever observed from are still my parent's back yard 3 miles north of Moorefield, WV, but still Scorpius is mostly washed out at culmination because of Moorefield, and that annoying billboard that went up a year ago and shines right into the field I observe from--I was putting a pine tree between it and myself till my uncle decided he didn't want the pine trees anymore and removed them.

So, I'll break my personal dark sky record (weather permitting) the end of this month camped out on Spruce Knob, the highest point in WV and one of, if not the, darkest place in the US east of the Mississippi, at the Almost Heaven Star Party.

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

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