Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locations for stargazing

Re:Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locati... by look_lookatme on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:54PM (#16242827)

I love looking at sites like this. My favorite is:

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

One thing I've always been curious about is there are 3 points of brightness off the coast of Newfoundland. Does anyone know what they are?

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=6&lat=5811787&lon=-...

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Re:Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locati... by abirkill on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:20PM (#16243380)

From the location of those light sources, I suspect they are from drilling rigs extracting oil from several large oil fields around the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.

There's a map of the largest fields in this article:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/husky-we...

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Re:Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locati... by cordite on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:26PM (#16243030)

This is the one my astronomer friend recommends.

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