Comments on: Quantifying the Darkness http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/ Blogging one sidereal day at a time Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Astrolink [Global Edition] » Cool Sky Brightness Meter | Latest astronomy news in 11 languages http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-4537 Astrolink [Global Edition] » Cool Sky Brightness Meter | Latest astronomy news in 11 languages Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:37:45 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/#comment-4537 [...] just learned from Pamela Gay’s Blog about a cool new device designed to quantitatively measure the sky brightness. It costs $119.00 and [...] [...] just learned from Pamela Gay’s Blog about a cool new device designed to quantitatively measure the sky brightness. It costs $119.00 and [...]

]]> By: Cool Sky Brightness Meter http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-4536 Cool Sky Brightness Meter Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:28:25 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/#comment-4536 [...] just learned from Pamela Gay’s Blog about a cool new device designed to quantitatively measure the sky brightness. It costs $119.00 and [...] [...] just learned from Pamela Gay’s Blog about a cool new device designed to quantitatively measure the sky brightness. It costs $119.00 and [...]

]]> By: Stephen http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-4279 Stephen Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:00:15 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/#comment-4279 The clear dark sky clock has a link to a light pollution map for any of the locations given. On that page, there are descriptions of the different levels of light pollution. http://cleardarksky.com/lp/LkErMtPkMIlp.html?Mn=science Worst says things like "Entire sky is grayish or brighter. Familliar constellations are missing stars.". That's where i live. I can find a dropped contact lens without a flashlight. Best says things like "Rising milky way confuses some into thinking it's dawn." I recently did some observing in Upper Michigan. Mag 6.5 or so skies. In my 10" scope, m31 wasn't just the core. It didn't fit in a field of view. The arms stretched out a field or so in both directions. m32 and m110 weren't hard to spot fuzz balls. They showed detail. Very cool. Mostly, i count stars in the little dipper. But for more precision, the sky clock descriptions rock. The clear dark sky clock has a link to a light pollution map for any of the locations given. On that page, there are descriptions of the different levels of light pollution.

http://cleardarksky.com/lp/LkErMtPkMIlp.html?Mn=science

Worst says things like “Entire sky is grayish or brighter. Familliar constellations are missing stars.”. That’s where i live. I can find a dropped contact lens without a flashlight.

Best says things like “Rising milky way confuses some into thinking it’s dawn.”

I recently did some observing in Upper Michigan. Mag 6.5 or so skies. In my 10″ scope, m31 wasn’t just the core. It didn’t fit in a field of view. The arms stretched out a field or so in both directions. m32 and m110 weren’t hard to spot fuzz balls. They showed detail. Very cool.

Mostly, i count stars in the little dipper. But for more precision, the sky clock descriptions rock.

]]> By: A Ler…-- Rastos de Luz http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-4270 A Ler…-- Rastos de Luz Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:02:13 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/25/quantifying-the-darkness/#comment-4270 [...] Quantifying the Darkness no Star Stryder [...] [...] Quantifying the Darkness no Star Stryder [...]

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