You are walking your dogs at 8pm, and look up into the sky to see what direction you're walking, and see nothing. No stars. Then, when you look away, 2 stars blink through your averted vision. Castor and Pollux. God Bless street lights!!!
You might be a screwed observer when...
Started by NGC88888, 03/12/2003 06:16AM
Posted 03/12/2003 06:16AM
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Posted 03/14/2003 12:28AM
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The streetlights will need blessing after I'm done with them! If I had my way, putting up a streetlight would result in a flogging.
Where are you living, Ryan? Sounds like you have worse light pollution than most.
Greg
Where are you living, Ryan? Sounds like you have worse light pollution than most.
Greg
"Though parted by a gulf more impassable than any sea, the telescope lets us traverse what otherwise had been barred and lands us at last above the shores we went forth to seek. Real the journey is, though incorporeal in kind. Since the seeing strange sights is the essence of all far wanderings, it is as truly tavel so the eye arrive as if the body kept it company." Pervcival Lowell
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