It IS space pollution!
Specially Zodiacal Light. If you are doing a Messier Marathon in March, trying to find M74 when it is already almost the same color as the sky, and, along comes Mr Zodiacal raising the light of the sky even further, so, M74 blends in to a point where you can’t see it, it’s pollution.
And, NO, I wasn’t using GOTO or digital setting circles. I was star hopping. (I have DSC now, but, not then)
There, I said it!
So now Algore is gonna work to get us to pay for cleaning it up?