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Turing off the lights in Iceland

croxiscroxis I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/09/28/lights-out-in-iceland/[/url]

We should do that in a lot of places!

Comments

  • DarthCaligulaDarthCaligula Elite Ranger
    That would be cool. I've gone camping out in the woods a bit before, but even then I still think that you can see the lights of civilization. Though the sky sure does look better then than it normally does.
  • EclecticonautEclecticonaut Elite Ranger
    Weather forecast for Thursday: chilly & cloudy.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by DarthCaligula [/i]
    [B]That would be cool. I've gone camping out in the woods a bit before, but even then I still think that you can see the lights of civilization. Though the sky sure does look better then than it normally does. [/B][/QUOTE]


    I lived in NYC for the big blackout a few years back, it was amazing listening to lifelong New Yorkers comment about the sky, whith all the lights in the city out, they saw more stars than they had ever seen before, and were amazed,
  • The Cabl3 GuyThe Cabl3 Guy Elite Ranger
    Yeah that was great everybody came out that night and school was out. It was kinda like Thriller except with goths instead of zombies.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    Lol, well now that i'm back up in Maine, i've been spoiled again by a nice starry sky, i'm thinkin of picking up a decent telescope.
  • Space GhostSpace Ghost Elite Ranger
    Sadly, most people in the US would never do that. :rolleyes:

    But seeing the night sky at my Uncle's camp in northern Pennsylvania is unreal... or rather, so very real. I wish I had a telescope.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    up here, it's even better in the winter, I live on an Island off the coast of Maine, and during the summer, long days, lots of tourists, but in the winter, its very dark early, and there are very few people, we have a national park here, which is closed to car traffic in the winter, so you can trudge into the park, be completely alone, under crystal clear skies,

    it is, in a word, awesome. and with a decent telescope, a t-ring and t-mount for my camera, and a nice heavy jacket, i think i could get some pretty good astralphotography images..

    now i just need to like sell a kidney or something to afford the 'scope.
  • EclecticonautEclecticonaut Elite Ranger
    Don't sell a kidney for a Celestron, when you can have a Siberian-made [url=http://www.telescopes.ru/product.html?cat=1&prod=62]TAL-250K[/url] at half the price.

    Of course it can take a while to get the mail delivered...
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    My parents are out in the country, about 20 minutes from a major city, and about 5 minutes from town. 23:00 on a cold January night just seems to show more stars than you can imagine...

    Jake
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    That's what its like here, i love it.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Entil'Zha [/i]
    [B]up here, it's even better in the winter, I live on an Island off the coast of Maine, and during the summer, long days, lots of tourists, but in the winter, its very dark early[/B][/QUOTE]Dark early... At latitudes of Southern Europe? :D

    You should come here around christmas... also Alaska would fit.
    But remember to take whole wardrope with you.


    Let me gues, that place you go, Acadia National Park?
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    Yep, Acadia is my back yard. literally
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Back in California I had a friend with a 13 inch reflector, and he had these eyepieces with a wide ass field of view...

    Everytime I looked into it, I'd have to grab something because I felt like I was falling into the sky...

    :D

    Dam beautiful...

    My favorite stargazing location was up Beasore Road above Bass Lake at around 8,000 ft elevation in summer camped near Chilkoot lake listening to the frogs all night. Soo many stars, and the Milky Way was so very present...

    Tennessee offers good viewing because I live out away from a lot of light polution... :)
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Entil'Zha [/i]
    [B]Yep, Acadia is my back yard. literally [/B][/QUOTE]At least no one is going to put up those idiotic lights pointing upwards to there...
    I wonder might it be possible to halve amount of energy used for illumination if all light would be pointed to ground where it's supposed to go.


    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
    [B]Back in California I had a friend with a 13 inch reflector, and he had these eyepieces with a wide ass field of view...

    Everytime I looked into it, I'd have to grab something because I felt like I was falling into the sky...[/B][/QUOTE]Yep, those hand grenade sized 2" wide FOV eyepieces are quite nice.

    But IMO it would be better to have "binoculars"

    [url]http://www.foothill.net/~sayre/22-in.%20binocular.htm[/url]
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