Marc - I was showing a journalist from Der Spiegel the view through a big telescope some years ago and he said that it was not until he got to the South Pacific that he realised what a dark sky should look like. He said that previously he had been looking at night sky in Europe that had reflected the light of cities over the horizon and assumed that the gray looking sky was the normal thing. Similarly with two observers from the US North East who commented that they liked the fact that the stray clouds crossing the Milky Way were black rather than " light reflecting "gray. Get back to the TSP when you can and to Ozsky when you can. I remember a middle aged lady from New Jersey who observed at home with a C5. She phoned me , as my club contact officer, when visiting Sydney to ask if I could take her out of the city so she could see the fabled Milky Way for the first time in her life. i did.