Hello From Horseheads NY

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Topic starter

Jan 22, 2019

Hi Everyone,
Jerry from the finger lakes region of NY here, been blessed to be in a Bortle 4 and it looks even better with VIRS 2018 data ..
I have spent most of the early part of this year struggling with weather, new equipment and concepts and recently had some very promising breakthrough moments, or at least I think I have. Hope to gain a lot of inspiration and insight from being here on the bin..

Take care!

Jerry

Michael Timm

Jan 22, 2019

Hi Jerry,

welcome from germany! At my site i also have a bortle 4 sky, but it gets worser every year due to growing villages :-( I presume in a few years i will have bortle 5.

CS
Michael

JerryB Horseheads NY

Topic starter

Jan 22, 2019

Hi Jerry,welcome from germany! At my site i also have a bortle 4 sky, but it gets worser every year due to growing villages :-( I presume in a few years i will have bortle 5.

CS
Michael

Hi Michael, thank you and I am sorry that your skies are getting worse..

I moved here from a class 5-6 so it was a huge leap for me..

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