Comments on: Help map your light pollution with GLOBE at Night http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:47:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Light Pollution « Bruises Colours http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72485 Light Pollution « Bruises Colours Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:10:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72485 [...] can of beans to Bad Astronomy for being the first place I read about [...] […] can of beans to Bad Astronomy for being the first place I read about […]

]]> By: Universe Today » Help Map Our Dark Skies http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72484 Universe Today » Help Map Our Dark Skies Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:15:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72484 [...] observation to thousands around the world. Last year about 8,500 people participated in this event. Phil and Emily have already posted on this, but Universe Today is now joining in to help GLOBE have [...] […] observation to thousands around the world. Last year about 8,500 people participated in this event. Phil and Emily have already posted on this, but Universe Today is now joining in to help GLOBE have […]

]]> By: Barton Paul Levenson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72483 Barton Paul Levenson Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:41:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72483 autumn writes: [[<i>My friends and I, and I have no compunctions about admitting this, would often take night-walks down the beach with nice pieces of coquina rocks, and not break the bulbs, but sever the electric cords and pull lengths of them out to take home with us.</i>]] So you think vandalism and theft are proper ways to fight development? How do you feel when people steal from you or destroy your property? autumn writes:

[[My friends and I, and I have no compunctions about admitting this, would often take night-walks down the beach with nice pieces of coquina rocks, and not break the bulbs, but sever the electric cords and pull lengths of them out to take home with us.]]

So you think vandalism and theft are proper ways to fight development? How do you feel when people steal from you or destroy your property?

]]> By: Nigel Depledge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72482 Nigel Depledge Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:08:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72482 I, too, can see most of the bright stars in Orion, but almost none of the nebulosity... This shot also shows up the light pollution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22177653@N03/2137686999/ I, too, can see most of the bright stars in Orion, but almost none of the nebulosity…

This shot also shows up the light pollution:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22177653@N03/2137686999/

]]> By: Pat http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72481 Pat Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:37:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72481 Done. Guess I'm not totally at the absolute bottom of the scale-I can see most of the stars that make up Orion, if no background stars. Done. Guess I’m not totally at the absolute bottom of the scale-I can see most of the stars that make up Orion, if no background stars.

]]> By: petronellas blog » Blog Archive » light pollution http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72480 petronellas blog » Blog Archive » light pollution Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:06:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72480 [...] (Source: Bad Astronomy Blog) [...] […] (Source: Bad Astronomy Blog) […]

]]> By: Willem A. Heiting http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72479 Willem A. Heiting Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:37:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/25/help-map-your-light-pollution-with-globe-at-night/#comment-72479 Done. Here in Holland we have chart 2 / 3. We have way too much light pollution. The skies in France at the west coast near Bordeaux are so much better. Done. Here in Holland we have chart 2 / 3. We have way too much light pollution. The skies in France at the west coast near Bordeaux are so much better.

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