It is sad, Chosun that you can't see the Milky Way. I am really surprised considering how good Australian skies are.
I haven't seen the Milky Way for twenty years from here.
In fact I can hardly see any stars at all.
At 3 a.m. I see the foxes walking down the road brightly lit.
When I was a teenager and near a city centre, I could always count 11 Pleiads with ease, without optical aid.
I didn't need glasses till about forty years old.
The Aboriginal Australians tested had normal sight of 20/6.7 or 20/10 and a best measured youngster 20/4.7.
In addition, they had their own constellations that non indigenous astronomers could not understand.
It was only when the testers used binoculars that they could make out the native constellations, so good was their faint vision.
I haven't seen a study of actual magnitudes, but I suppose 8th magnitude stars were fairly common for Aboriginal Australians.
There were similar reports from south American indigenous sailors who could see distant objects that European sailors only saw with telescopes.
Unfortunately I never got to see Australian skies.
Saturn, Jupiter and the fainter planets are well south of the equator, so you have the best views high in the sky presently.
Regards,
B.
P.S.
My first published letter to a national newpaper was an explanation of the visibility of Sputnik to all the non believers, who said it was impossible to see it.
It really shook the Americans.