Drove out to the Joshua Tree dark sky zone and the Milky Way was just a faint smudge

I mean, I was so pumped to finally get some good shots with my new camera, a Canon R7. But the light pollution from Palm Springs was way worse than the map said, even from 30 miles out. It totally washed out the core, and I barely got any detail after stacking. Has anyone else had better luck with a specific spot out there that's actually dark?

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the_river14d ago

I used to think those maps were totally reliable, but that "washed out the core" thing happened to me too.

paige_harris14d ago

Yeah, @the_river, I had to go way past the park boundary to get a truly dark spot.