Light Pollution

[den]

I hope the people who were blacked out went outside that night and looked up. There are stars up there! I never realized how bad light pollution is until my trips to the UK in the 80s. A dozen bright stars and light-haze is not a night sky.

Comments

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

In the 1965 blackout there were reports of panicked calls to the police, where people were saying they were seeing these strange lights in the sky that were never there before...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Oh dear.

Where I live now, it's a 10 minute drive to turn light pollution into a smudge on the horizon. Lights in the sky hold no fears for me.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

I'm a little bit outside the downtown core of a medium-sized city, and there's a lotta times at night when I can see the Milky Way, with Main Street a minute's walk away. I like this place.