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I use to use the telescope at the Griffin observatory with all the
lights,and smog of LA. (no big problem) Griffin park is a 500 ft hill,and LA has hills all around(like Boston) I would think moon light is much worse than city lights,when its full. Someday mankind will have free and very safe trips to the moon,and it will be only 10 hours away,to look though a telescope 2 billion time more powerful than todays Hubble. We could have been 37 years closer to this dream "If NASA stayed with trips to the moon. Bert |
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(G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote in news:25133-3F624681-
: I use to use the telescope at the Griffin observatory with all the lights,and smog of LA. (no big problem) Griffin park is a 500 ft hill,and LA has hills all around(like Boston) I would think moon light is much worse than city lights,when its full. Then why did the residents of cities plunged into the big blackout last month remark that they could see more stars than ever - when there was a full moon in the sky? http://www.darksky.org/~ida/links/aug14tdtlwo.html Full moons always have the same brightness while light pollution get worse with time. Someday mankind will have free and very safe trips to the moon,and it will be only 10 hours away,to look though a telescope 2 billion time more powerful than todays Hubble. We could have been 37 years closer to this dream "If NASA stayed with trips to the moon. Bert That is still no excuse for allowing uncontrolled spread of light pollution. It costs us energy, and the environment. Also it is costing us the natural heritage of the night sky that inspired our space ventures in the first place. To leave the earth's sky behind - junked, while we are forced to _pay_ to see a dark sky from the moon or elsewhere is shirking our responsibility here on earth. Martin Lewicki |
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(G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote in news:25133-3F624681-
: I use to use the telescope at the Griffin observatory with all the lights,and smog of LA. (no big problem) Griffin park is a 500 ft hill,and LA has hills all around(like Boston) I would think moon light is much worse than city lights,when its full. Then why did the residents of cities plunged into the big blackout last month remark that they could see more stars than ever - when there was a full moon in the sky? http://www.darksky.org/~ida/links/aug14tdtlwo.html Full moons always have the same brightness while light pollution get worse with time. Someday mankind will have free and very safe trips to the moon,and it will be only 10 hours away,to look though a telescope 2 billion time more powerful than todays Hubble. We could have been 37 years closer to this dream "If NASA stayed with trips to the moon. Bert That is still no excuse for allowing uncontrolled spread of light pollution. It costs us energy, and the environment. Also it is costing us the natural heritage of the night sky that inspired our space ventures in the first place. To leave the earth's sky behind - junked, while we are forced to _pay_ to see a dark sky from the moon or elsewhere is shirking our responsibility here on earth. Martin Lewicki |
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Martin and Nate This post was started by Nate from the Boston area. My
main point was to bring out that LA like Boston has hills. Griffin' telescope is on top of a hill. With the lights of the city of LA seeing Saturn,and Jupiter was no problem. So my advice to Nate is go to the top of Powder Horn hill (that's in Chelsea) and try that spot. Massachusetts has great mountains,so take Rt 90 (Mass Pike?,and in two hours you are in Easthampton. Its an easy ride up Sugar Loaf MT. No big cities around and you will find a good building up there to block the wind. Dress warm. If Nate you go email me,for my daughter Sheri lives at the foot of that mountain,and you could drop by and say "hello" Bert |
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Martin and Nate This post was started by Nate from the Boston area. My
main point was to bring out that LA like Boston has hills. Griffin' telescope is on top of a hill. With the lights of the city of LA seeing Saturn,and Jupiter was no problem. So my advice to Nate is go to the top of Powder Horn hill (that's in Chelsea) and try that spot. Massachusetts has great mountains,so take Rt 90 (Mass Pike?,and in two hours you are in Easthampton. Its an easy ride up Sugar Loaf MT. No big cities around and you will find a good building up there to block the wind. Dress warm. If Nate you go email me,for my daughter Sheri lives at the foot of that mountain,and you could drop by and say "hello" Bert |
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thankyou bert!! i'm taking all advise i can get right now!
"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... Martin and Nate This post was started by Nate from the Boston area. My main point was to bring out that LA like Boston has hills. Griffin' telescope is on top of a hill. With the lights of the city of LA seeing Saturn,and Jupiter was no problem. So my advice to Nate is go to the top of Powder Horn hill (that's in Chelsea) and try that spot. Massachusetts has great mountains,so take Rt 90 (Mass Pike?,and in two hours you are in Easthampton. Its an easy ride up Sugar Loaf MT. No big cities around and you will find a good building up there to block the wind. Dress warm. If Nate you go email me,for my daughter Sheri lives at the foot of that mountain,and you could drop by and say "hello" Bert |
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thankyou bert!! i'm taking all advise i can get right now!
"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... Martin and Nate This post was started by Nate from the Boston area. My main point was to bring out that LA like Boston has hills. Griffin' telescope is on top of a hill. With the lights of the city of LA seeing Saturn,and Jupiter was no problem. So my advice to Nate is go to the top of Powder Horn hill (that's in Chelsea) and try that spot. Massachusetts has great mountains,so take Rt 90 (Mass Pike?,and in two hours you are in Easthampton. Its an easy ride up Sugar Loaf MT. No big cities around and you will find a good building up there to block the wind. Dress warm. If Nate you go email me,for my daughter Sheri lives at the foot of that mountain,and you could drop by and say "hello" Bert |
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