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Another option is Western Australia: 0.2 if you get outside the capital city. You'll see stars you didn't know existed and the distances are something else.
by dbetteridge 1y ago
Another option is
Western Australia: 0.2 if you get outside the capital city.
You'll see stars you didn't know existed and the distances are something else.
Northwest territories is beautiful though.
- VagabundoP 1y agoI stayed out past Margaret River in Western Oz and "OMG its full of stars" when I went to the outside toilet during the middle of the night and looked up. I felt like I could get sucked up and lost in galaxies. You could see so many.
- dbetteridge 1y agoI live down in the south West and you really don't have to go far for some fantastic star photography. Blackwood River forest is just one example.
- bookofjoe 1y agoAltitude is also an excellent force multiplier for visualizing stars. I can still see in my mind's eye the sky at night at 17,000 feet while trekking in Nepal in 1982: it looked like glitter-studded fabric, the stars almost contiguous.
- sandworm101 1y agoAutralia is empty too, but lacks the vertical dimension. Seeing big mountains far away gives one the sense of being in a bigger "room".