The dome in the backyard
Unlike most sciences, astronomy has oodles of serious, hard-core, non-professional practioners.
Check out the NYT article about 3 communities built specificially for amateur astronomers, in dark sites, with strict light pollution controls. In particular, Portal, AZ is beautiful -- we spent hours at a campground watching a small meteor shower and star-hopping with our birding binos.
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The article is Built for Stargazing, that that link is to a copy with no "registration" required.
It talks about Chiefland in Florida, Arizona Sky Village, and Deerlick Astronomy Village in Georgia.
Bad Astronomy has a long comment thread spawned by this post, check it out.
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