Super sky to rubbish, which have you got ?

[Tomjo59]

I guess I'm quite lucky here - a 3, generally.

[DaveS]

Looking at that table, and taking a good dose of reality I would now have to say 9. Bother, I had hoped it might make 8, but only three stars of UMi are visible, which puts it firmly at 9.

[spaceboy]

Maybe 7 ?? Not sure from the graph offered but a visual check gave me magnitude 5 stars the other night which is almost as good as it gets where I am. I seem to suffer with poor seeing conditions where I am so I doubt I'd be much better off even if the sky's were dark.

[ghostdance]

Definitely "rubbish" for me.  Using the table here: https://darkskydiary.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/naked-eye-limiting-magnitude-assessing-sky-brightness/ , my front garden (with its overabundance of streetlights) gets a 9, from the back I can get down to an 8.

Heigh-ho.

Going by the link and Umi then, I'm most definitely a 9...so much for '7 at best', lol.

[silios]

9++ out of scale i guess

Athens has to be one of the most light polluted cities on earth!

[michaelmorris]

Somewhere around 5 or 6 for me in the suburbs of Worcester.

[WullieR8]

yeah i would say generally about 5 where i am .

[Owmuchonomy]

I would say mine has improved recently to 3-4 especially on the southern horizon. I can'tscientifically connect the two but Harrogate (South) has adopted a lights off scheme in some areas after midnight. Unfortunately they have decided to light up Ripon Cathedral with those uplights all night thus spoiling the Northern view. I can easily get all the mag 5.5 stars naked eye in UMi unless it's a bit murky but that is usually straight up of course!

[DaveS]

There is one plus point to having such rubbish skies, every time I get a hankering after something expensive from APM I just have to look at the sky and reality sets in. Does my bank balance a world of good!

[D4N]

There is one plus point to having such rubbish skies, every time I get a hankering after something expensive from APM I just have to look at the sky and reality sets in. Does my bank balance a world of good!

Until you start thinking how well a 2nm Ha filter would cut through that nasty LP

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[DaveS]

He, he! Well, I already have a set of four Astrodon 3 nm filters, not sure they make 2 nm yet