Beach near Orleans, MA (still very much *on shore*) is shown to have limiting magnitude 6.3 (-69.96399, 41.88289) Orleans, MA 5.7
Boston 2.6 NYC 2.4 middle of the Atlantic ocean 6.8 Quite a difference, what do you think? And, believe me, the skies there (cape cod shore) are quite dark indeed. Especially off-season :) Best, Mishka On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:28:08 -0500, Peter J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd check the results for Cape Cod before making any claims, Putting > "home" halfway between Provincetown and Northeastham the darksky results > are on an arc about 40 miles off shore towards the middle of the North > Atlantic... > > > > 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 > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>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. > >>> > >>>t > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>-- > >>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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > >
