From: "Tom Krajci" 
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Reply-To: "Tom Krajci" 


From: Mark Whorton 

>I am building a new house and have been planning to build a backyard
>observatory while I'm at it, but I'm not sure which way to go. I have
two >options and I would like opinions.

>Option 1 -- in my backyard....

>Option 2 -- Behind my inlaw's house...

>So, should I go for convenience or better skies at the cost of running
>remotely.

Can you define your goals more specifically?  Visual observation of deep
sky?  Visual observation of planets/moon?  CCD for pretty pictures?  CCD
for science/data gathering?

Also, can you give us an idea of two things:

A.  Amount of light pollution (naked eye limiting magnitude) at both sites.
B.  Odds of growth of light pollution in the coming years.

Based on your answers, it will probably be a bit easier to choose which
site is better suited to your goals.

Tom Krajci
Tashkent, Uzbekistan


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