I finally checked why M31 shots from my driveway never matched the ones online, and it's light pollution maps lying by omission | Astronomy Photos - SMM Buzz
I finally checked why M31 shots from my driveway never matched the ones online, and it's light pollution maps lying by omission
Cleardarksky listed my spot as Bortle 5, but when I pulled the actual 2015 Falchi map on the lightpollutionmap.info site, my neighborhood measured closer to Bortle 7, which explains why 4 hours of stacked subs on Andromeda came out as a gray smudge, so does anyone here cross check those two sources before driving an hour out of town?