RE: [ATM] Locating dark skies

["Richard Klappal" <klappal@xnet.com>]

Try out http://www.darksky.org/darksky/index.html.  I think it is sky
darkness computed from population density, but it gives you a list of places
to check out rather than totally blind probes.

Rich


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From: atm-bounces@atmlist.net [mailto:atm-bounces@atmlist.net]On Behalf
Of artbianconi@blast.net
Sent: Wednesday, 02 June, 2004 07:27
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Subject: [ATM] Locating dark skies


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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