Re: [APML]: sky conditions

[Carl Solo <ce_solo@yahoo.com>]

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I am by no means an expert on sky conditions and I am new to astronomy
and astro-photography, but I have noticed a lack of "vividness" in the
sky over my home in Virginia. I'm blessed with a fairly dark site for
a backyard. I guage my comparison by the contrast between the belt of
the Milky Way and the not-Milky Way between last summer and this
summer. Last year the Milky-Way was a white belt on a deep*2 blue sky.
This year it's been a light gray belt on a dark gray sky. The jet
stream has been troughing up-and-down-and-back-and-forth across the
Midwest and Mid-Atlantic (PA, MD, DE, NC & VA) all summer (my wife is
a Weather Channel junkie). We've had low rainfall and high relative
humidity for many months. El Nino's dissipation was supposed to bring
relief and normalize the jet stream, but the Atlantic hurricanes
should have been up to around K by now. Two summers ago we had (way)
too many hurricanes cruising up the Blue Ridge, but they did bring
clear skies (between the roof shingles and lawn furniture).
  
---Greg Mueller <mueller@silverlink.net> wrote:
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> It seems to me that the skies this year have had more high scattered
> light than I remember in previous years, rendering the sky less
> contrasty.  When there is a new moon it doesn't seem to be real dark
> out, even in "dark" sites. Is it just me? Am I just being more picky
now
> than before? Has anyone else noticed this?
> 
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> Greg Mueller
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> closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules...
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