This is interesting to look at.

Check out North Korean. Also, you can see the big oil fields because of the gas burn off.

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/...on=-9998942&layers=B0FFFFFTFFFFFFFFF

.. 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.

Thanks for posting.

Happy to be mostly in the dark.

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.

Google up "earth from space at night"

Them is some cool pics!

Thanks for sharing this.

North Dakota really shows up with the gas flairs

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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Check out the North Slope of AK. Looks like LA up there.

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.

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.

I'm surprised that there is that much light pollution in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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.

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.

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....

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!

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 😎

Yep.
Seems like they are gonna quit that.

I hope so.

I got light pollution and noise pollution. And this is in "rural" Kentucky. I wish I could be elsewhere.

They have to burn that off don't they? They can't just let it vent can they?

No, they cant vent it.

Why not gather it instead?

Profit James?

Cost more to gather it and send it wherever than it does to burn it off?

Adding more to the 'pipeline' might just get the price too low for all concerned?

I could almost guarantee, if they could make $0.01 final profit on each 1000cf they are burning off, they'd be shipping it somewhere to burn in someone's furnace or stove.

If you want to see dark skies, sail west from Hawaii about halfway to Japan. Amazing starlight!

Same in Cook Inlet.

Some of it is sour correct?

I don't know, but you're right it would seem using it would be a great option. Maybe it's a money thing.

Why do they call it light 'pollution'? Shouldn't they relabel it to 'evidence of civilization'?

for some (many?) of us, too much light used indiscriminately is not very "civil".

Honestly, I think one could go around with a BB gun and shoot out a good 50% of the lights burning for no reason in the cities, even in the country, and no one would be the worse off.

I especially dislike those newfangled electric billboards that are so bright they are a distraction. We even have on out here in the dark spaces at a local gas station.

The best is to get some elevation on a cold night after a wet front has washed everything. Amazing how bright the sky can be.

By the way, did anyone score the northern lights last night? I missed.

Nothing here. Overcast.

I ask someone in the oil field that same question. I guess natural gas prices are so low it's cheaper to burn it than capture and sell it. They claimed they needed pipelines to make it feasible and even then the volume was so low it might not break even.