|
Color |
Naked Eye Impact (Based on Russell
Sipe's description and personal experience) |
|
Excellent dark
skies with no impairment! |
|
Good visual
observing. Long exposure astrophotography shows light
pollution |
|
Milky Way
easily visible. Fair visual observing.
Astrophotography shows some light pollution. |
|
Milky Way
visible, but dim. Bright DSOs visible.
Astrophotography difficult. |
|
Stars to
roughly magnitude 4 visible, but the Milky Way is not. Very
bright DSOs visible. |
|
Jupiter,
Venus, the Moon, and objects to about magnitude 3 visible |
|
Almost no
stars visible, only the Moon is readily visible |