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.. That is an interesting deal. Thanks for posting. I've seen the light pollution thing on the Korean peninsula before. Back when there was a thread here or on another site about the North Korean food shortages. Of course; Mr. Kim Jong Whats-his-name & the rest of the NORK leaders were still fat & happy throughout the entire famine.
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Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Happy to be mostly in the dark.
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Sure glad I don't live east of the 100th meridian in the US of A.
One blueish dot near me, couple of smaller ones in our county. Mostly dark, the way I like it.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Google up "earth from space at night"
Them is some cool pics!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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North Dakota really shows up with the gas flairs
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Big Hunter recently visited home this summer from living in Indiana. He had with him his girlfriend, who’s a very nice young lady who grew up in Michigan City.
She was literally amazed by the number of stars you can see on a decent evening here. It’s even better now as it gets cooler and the humidity isn’t as bad.
Just one more reason it doesn’t bother me one bit to have to drive a half hour os so for beer and groceries!
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North Dakota really shows up with the gas flairs Check out the North Slope of AK. Looks like LA up there.
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I like to go out to Thedford, NE, between North Platte and Valentine, to star gaze.
There is no artificial light when you're out in the Nebraska National Forest southeast of Thedford.
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Big Hunter recently visited home this summer from living in Indiana. He had with him his girlfriend, who’s a very nice young lady who grew up in Michigan City.
She was literally amazed by the number of stars you can see on a decent evening here. It’s even better now as it gets cooler and the humidity isn’t as bad.
Just one more reason it doesn’t bother me one bit to have to drive a half hour os so for beer and groceries!
7mm Grew up as a kid in Clearfield County. First time I went to Cincinnati to visit my dad I was mesmerized by the fact it never got dark. Light pollution is a real thing, and it's gross. Like subdivisions.
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I'm surprised that there is that much light pollution in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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I like to go out to Thedford, NE, between North Platte and Valentine, to star gaze.
There is no artificial light when you're out in the Nebraska National Forest southeast of Thedford. You're in one of those nice dark gray/black areas on the map so you do know what dark skies are. Get much further east of you and those areas get smaller and smaller though.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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I'm surprised that there is that much light pollution in Zambia and Zimbabwe. There is a button on the right that says Hybrid. Clicking that will show you the city giving off the light. If no city it is probably an oil field.
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I frequently walk the dogs before dawn in a park north of town, hike through the dawn and into the sunrise.
Even where you can’t see an electric light, even on a clear night, you can see your keys if you drop them on the trail, cloudy nights it’s brighter.
I tried that further west one time, it was like hiking blind in a cave....
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Went to the ranch ~ 37 years ago. Got 3 YO daughter out of the car, and she asked "Daddy, why don't we have stars in Albuquerque?"
That was a little hard to explain to a child.
"Twas a beautiful night, though - Milky Way in full glory, cloudless, and moonless!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
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One year we hosted a Chinese exchange student from Hangchow where the air is so bad he said he had never seen the stars.
So over New Years I hauled him and two of his buddies off to camp in Big Bend, so many stars they look three dimensional, so many you have problems finding the familiar constellations 😎
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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North Dakota really shows up with the gas flairs Yep. Seems like they are gonna quit that. I hope so.
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I got light pollution and noise pollution. And this is in "rural" Kentucky. I wish I could be elsewhere.
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