Posted May 10, 200718 yr is in death valley. wow :-o what a starry view -- like most of us will never be able to see. needless to say its endanger of diminishing due to light pollution. from the peerless apod: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070508.html A Dark Sky Over Death Valley Credit: Dan Duriscoe, U.S. National Park Service Explanation: This eerie glow over Death Valley is in danger. Scrolling right will show a spectacular view from one of the darkest places left in the continental USA: Death Valley, California. The above 360-degree full-sky panorama is a composite of 30 images taken two years ago in Racetrack Playa. The image has been digitally processed and increasingly stretched at high altitudes to make it rectangular. In the foreground on the image right is an unusually placed rock that was pushed by high winds onto Racetrack Playa after a slick rain. In the background is a majestic night sky, featuring thousands of stars and many constellations. The arch across the middle is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Light pollution is threatening dark skies like this all across the US, and therefore the International Dark-Sky Association and the US National Parks Service are suggesting methods that can protect them.
May 10, 200718 yr Huh. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 10, 200718 yr I didn't think you could see the central part of the Milkyway Galaxy from the Northern Hemisphere. But I do suppose you can still see the rest of the 'arm' that we inhabbit. Just think, in the Southern Hemisphere, because it faces toward the central part of the galaxy, there are a lot more stars. The picture looks awesome. To think, that is the same stary sky that is over me right now here in Oxford, Ohio. Too bad I can't really see it.
May 10, 200718 yr Beautiful photo! In 1962, the day that I arrived at Goodfellow AFB near San Angelo, Texas, I went to a movie at the base theater on my first evening there. When I left the theater it was dark out, and when I saw the night sky it nearly took my breath away. Growing up in the humid and hazy midwest, I had never imagined that one could see so many stars standing out so clearly against such a dark background. I'm sure some folks thought I was weird, just leaning against a railing and staring at the sky; they were right, but not for the reasons they thought.
May 10, 200718 yr cool I have read 19th century descriptions of the night sky in the midwest that sound like a modern description of the night sky in the south west.
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