[ATM] Locating dark skies

[artbianconi@blast.net]

I'm giving serious thought to either selling my home outright or 
simply renting it while I find another more suitable place to live. 
Not too far away as I value my relationships and want to sustain 
them.

I'm in north-western New Jersey, right on the Delaware and 
about 30 minutes or so south of the Water Gap.

Chief criteria will come as no surprise: low taxes, low cost of 
living, etc. However, it will come as no surprise to any of you to 
learn that right up there near the top of the list are skies as black 
as coal and nothing brighter than a firefly within a hundred miles.

Went looking for a method to find such skies using quantifiable 
data. There are any number of those famous night photos of 
North America taken from a Kirlean warship as it uncloaked but I 
could find no closeups of Upstate New York, or mid central 
Pennsylvania. 

A ride through the length of Ohio last night on the way home 
from Indianapolis was extraordinary but how does one research 
such things without having to drive all over Hell and Creation?

Has anyone been down this path and found a reliable resource 
for locating skies an astronomer would love?

Thanks

Art

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