Why i dont do DSO

[nightfisher]

2 hours ago, JOC said:

The thing is the actual sky above looks fairly dark.  If you guillotined the photos and lost the lights the actual sky doesn't look too bad.  A tall windbreak (I've got a 6ft + one - or fairly simple to construct with some long poles, canvas and a sewing machine) planted in some buckets of builders sand or small cobbles, Or a tall clothes airer with a blanket slung over it just to ensure your eyes couldn't see the lights directly might make the world of difference.  Alternatively do you have another direction you can look in?  I live next to a factory burning floodlights all night (NNE) and my West is not as good as my South and East due to a yellowy glow from a town, but my South and East are pretty good and there is lots I can see there or even more vertically.  So I've been enjoying Venus to the West (on the odd clear nights in January - so far no outings in February at all - I missed the only two clear nights whilst I was away!) - not even a yellowy glow can trounce Venus and looking for other interesting things in my good directions.  Maybe we all ought to take photos of our own light pollution problems and post them and them and see who has the biggest problems - 4 photos N, S E & W.

I see a thread coming............show us your light pollution