from the very Large Array, and similar to how we used to see it at our house, before people lit their driveways like airport runways and their houses like Christmas trees.
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It is weird how much light pollution we have now days.
pretty much none at my house. I carry a flashlight with me every day so I can see where I am walking at night. I don’t have an attached garage and i park in the driveway and walk in. My shop is about 100’ from the house. Feeding the horses and other chores all require a flashlight at night.
What shocks me is how many satellites are up there that I can see each night.
Yes, when I am in the Hot tub at night, can always see satellites moving across the sky. Some are brighter than others.
My ex brother in law has a “farm” on 350 acres outside of Mound City, KS. He’s about 15 miles from the city and 2 miles off the highway. His nearest neightbor is over a mile away. On clear nights, it’s amazing to see the Milky Way…easy to see how it got that name.
One time we were down there an we saw two white lights moving across the sky…We wodered what they were and someone said two planes. But they were moving away from us. My niece was dating a guy who worked for NASA and he said that we were looking at the Space Station and Space Shuttle. It’s amazing what you see in a remote place.
years ago me, my brother and some friends were camping at Lake Texoma. It was a moonless night. My brother walked up to the showers. It was pitch black out when he was walking back. He walked right past the road to the campsite…it was so dark he couldn’t see it.
Last numbers I saw, there are about 13,000 operational objects in orbit (much more space junk). About 8,500 are Starlink satellites.
A few years ago I went out in my woods and the sun went down. Was afraid I would not make it out alive, and got rather scratched up from sticky things. Anyway I discovered that it does not really get dark here there is so much light pollution from nearby city like 30 miles away, and so-called “attractions.”
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