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.

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[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

This is why I go camping. Especially in the winter (well, that's the only time you _can_ go camping in florida comfortably) - a clear night, 100 miles away from the largest city in the area, clear skies.

Down in south florida it's pretty much impossible to escape the light pollution - large sprawl on the west coast, larger sprawl on the east coast - 200 miles of light pollution on the east coast - no exaggeration.

I remember when I was little staring into the sky and getting lost in the stars. I wish more kids were able to experience that now.