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> hundreds of miles from any town Not at all. Maybe hundreds of miles from a large city? I'm not even sure about that, but I know you can see the Milky Way fif
by dkarl 4y ago
> hundreds of miles from any town
Not at all. Maybe hundreds of miles from a large city? I'm not even sure about that, but I know you can see the Milky Way fifty miles from a city of tens of thousands.
- harrydehal 4y agoFor the data-visualization curious, here's a fun map: https://www.lightpollutionmap.info https://www.lightpollutionmap.info Clicking on your location/vicinity shows a tooltip with your "Bortle Dark Sky Scale" number, which can be referenced here: https://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/bortle.html https://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/bortle.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale Apparently I've lived in a class 6 or 7 my whole life, and only recall seeing shooting stars camping out in the Sierras, e.g. Yosemite, which is still only a class 2!