Mishka wrote:
amita said she's going to cape cod. that's more than 20 miles "offshore" and the skies there, although not quite like in AZ, are pretty dark.
best, mishka
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:34:18 -0500, Peter J. Alling
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Interesting but not very useful if you live in a light polluted place like the NE US. Every dark spot suggested is 20 miles offshore... (I didn't even look at where it put Amita from her location in New York, but I doubt she'd want to tread water at this time of yea)r. Still playing with it was fun.
Tim Sherburne wrote:
On 11/8/04 0:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm no expert on this but I think you may find that, virtually anywhere in the NE USA, light pollution will inhibit decent results.
This might help in anyone's quest for dark sky:
<http://www.darksky.org/ida/darksky/>
[Mike offers more good advice, then...]
You can hear birds singing at 4.00am in the winter, here.
Mike, I can't speak for your area, but I think some species of songbirds birds have a habit of rising early in general. There's something called the "dawn chorus" that gets going in the early morning hours in some parts of the world.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
--P.J. O'Rourke
