Those lucky guys

[SteamWake]

Being an amateur astronomer I have to drive a hundred miles to a 'dark sky' site that dosent even come close to this...


Bortle 2 is as dark as it gets on dry land; only in the middle of the ocean, where light pollution is entirely absent, could you experience the profound blackness of Bortle 1.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6887233.ece

[Dowly]

Wow... didnt know places like that were that rare. :o

[Sledgehammer427]

I live north of a relatively large town (15,000 and growing) and the stargazing is pretty excellent....if you keep looking north XD.

I get to take astronomy this year, so you can bet my prof will see this :yeah:

Thanks for the link SW!

[SteamWake]

Those yellowish street lights (Sodium) are the bane of every backyard astronomer.

The blue (Metal halide) arent much better.

They do make filters that cut that particular part of the spectrum but it diminishes the light gathering of the scope.

My scope is a hand made 6" f8 dobsonian 100% manual :haha: I did buy the mirrors though ;)

Ill get some pictures up, in fact I just stripped her down from her summers rest so shes torn open and Ill get some of the innards.

Ill start a new thread for that. :salute:

[Sailor Steve]

I live in a fairly large city, and it's very bright at night. But I used to go camping in the nearby Uinta mountains, and I was amazed at the amount of stars there are to see in a place that remote.Never took a telescope though.

[SteamWake]

I live in a fairly large city, and it's very bright at night. But I used to go camping in the nearby Uinta mountains, and I was amazed at the amount of stars there are to see in a place that remote.Never took a telescope though.

Take some Binoculars :up:

[Torplexed]

Reminds me of one of the panels of a "star party" astronomy cartoon I did a few years back. ;) Never star party with Doctor Know.

http://pyxis.homestead.com/LightPollution.jpg

http://pyxis.homestead.com/Doctor-Know.html

[Rhodes]

Great cartoon Torplexed! :up:

Here, in my town, the near by mountain is one of the few spots that do not have the city lights preventing star gazing. But what I always postponing is taking photos of the moon set, over the sea since I have that possibility many times, but the lack of a decent tripod...

[Sailor Steve]

About average fare...for Torplexed!

:rotfl2::rock:

[SteamWake]

Reminds me of one of the panels of a "star party" astronomy cartoon I did a few years back. ;) Never star party with Doctor Know.

http://pyxis.homestead.com/LightPollution.jpg

http://pyxis.homestead.com/Doctor-Know.html



:salute:

Enjoyed the whole series !