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Coming up on March 12

It isn't hard to imaging that the first humans already gazed up at the stars, wondering what they are. But seeing the stars has become much more difficult in the past century due to light pollution. Is this an annoyance that mainly affects astronomers and stargazers, or is it a real problem? And what's with Elon Musk's StarLink satellites? We will talk about this on Saturday.


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I spent nearly 12 years living near Goulburn, NSW before moving to the rural outskirts of Sydney where I spent the rest of my childhood, then lived in suburbia. My mum lives in the country house now. It's surprising how many stars and galaxies that are visible, even on a night of bright moonlight. The band of the Milky Way is clearly visible, as are dark nebulae. It isn't nonsense, lights have an impact every night.

After living in Sedona Arizona 86336 since 2005 give or take a minute, the entire discussion is complete and utter nonsense. The moon light during one of each of the approximately four weeks in an average month, Obliterates any artificial light that might be uttered in the vicinity of said moon shadow producing very bright light. Anyone arguing that on the fewer days in an average month when the moon is out during the day light hours in your neighborhood that the saved light emitted by any fake suns is a problem is a problem. These are clueless people who think cats die when the switch is turned off. It takes months for any cat to cool down to carbon oxygen and the rest of it. Not the flip of a switch that is un preceded and unfollowed by action and reaction cause and effect heat signatures receding into cooler heat signatures heat signatures all the way down

My other favourite musical artist Enya released an album entitled 'Dark Sky Island' . The title refers to Sark, which is a Dark Sky preserve, meaning that it's an area that has no light pollution at night. According to Enya, one can't see the familiar 'landmarks' of constellations abecause of how many stars one can actually see.


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