For those in the Tucson area, I just wanted to call attention to this upcoming event: the Tucson Astronomy Festival, taking place March 22 at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. Associate Editor Michael Bakich wrote a short article with all the information you need:
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What is the Bortle scale of the sky down that way now days ?
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Using this map, it looks like right at the park itself the sky is about a 5. Of course, if you move just a little farther from downtown, things improve dramatically!
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How about the Festival?. A good night?
Regards
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The Tuscon Amateur Astronomy Association has two observing sites. A highly developed observing site in SE Arizona in a very dark Bortle 1.2 zone, and a more local observing sit shared with a model airplane club NE of Tuscon in a Bortle 4 (green) zone. As for the city itself, of course it is in a Bortle 10 urban zone.
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Excellent ! And with the arid climate , transparency is usually great too .
I would get lost in a Bortle 1.5 sky lol
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Milky Way from horizon to horizon .
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I’m in Bortle 5 here 
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Living in a bortle 8-9 though some days it’s a glorious 7 id literally give up anything for even a bortle say 5-4😭
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@Nikolai-De-Silva I am a solid Bortle 4, but everyonce in a while, we get very clean, stable air and it gets darker. The stars are brighter and you can see the Milky Way easily horizon to horizon. Then i say we are Bortle 3.5.
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