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Hoovooloo Posted Mar 29, 2012
"Milky" sky is very likely the consequence of the temperature inversion we're enjoying/suffering at the moment. There's a layer of warm, hazy air trapped under a higher layer of cold air.
This has two effects that I notice:
1. milky air makes stars slightly less visible
2. no cumulus clouds because the thermals can't get well established or high enough to reach the dew point, so I can't get high enough off the ridge to go XC. Yet. 
Also, wave effects. 
If you can get above the inversion (top of Skiddaw, say), the sky would appear much clearer as you'd be in the cold layer above the haze.
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U14993989 Posted Apr 11, 2012
Light pollution 'saturates' UK's night skies: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17665397
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U14993989 Posted Apr 12, 2012
12th April 2012. Mars still in Leo but has noticeably moved westward (relative to Leo and towards Regulus) since last observed.
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