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Re:The Race to Reclaim the Dark by dkarl on Monday July 25, 2022 @07:58AM (#32223160)
> hundreds of miles from any town

Not at all. Maybe hundreds of miles from a large city? I'm not even sure about that, but I know you can see the Milky Way fifty miles from a city of tens of thousands.

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Re:The Race to Reclaim the Dark by harrydehal on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:05PM (#32227398)
For the data-visualization curious, here's a fun map:

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

Clicking on your location/vicinity shows a tooltip with your "Bortle Dark Sky Scale" number, which can be referenced here:

https://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/bortle.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale

Apparently I've lived in a class 6 or 7 my whole life, and only recall seeing shooting stars camping out in the Sierras, e.g. Yosemite, which is still only a class 2!

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