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[Australia] Northern Territory’s Karlu Karlu conservation reserve recognised as a rare International Dark Sky Sanctuary
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/22/northern-territorys-karlu-karlu-conservation-reserve-recognised-as-a-rare-international-dark-sky-sanctuary
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As someone who used to go to the Pilbara in WA with my astronomy club to do some observing to think there are even clearer skies I find impressive.
Now I live on another continent and if I can make out Orion that is now deemed to be good seeing. Such a let down.
I mean thats awesome- the night sky there is insane (as someone living in NZ)
the skeptic in me is curious about how that is right next to the ‘secret’ american military base but
edit:
> The American base near Alice Springs is officially known as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap. Located 18 km south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, it is a highly secretive joint intelligence-gathering facility operated by Australia and the United States. It was set up in the late 1960s (operational by 1970) during the Cold War, originally presented to locals as a civilian “space research”