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(meteorobs) Light Pollution in NJ
Lew wrote:
Check out the following DETAILED satellite light-pollution picture:
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/H_OTHER/SATPOL1.HTM
Note the nice little dark spot where the Myles Standish Forest site
lies in SE MA - as well as some lovely, LARGE dark areas in NE CT!
[Wayne, where is Chatsworth and how close is it to the NJAA Obs.?]
WTH>>I don't know offhand where Chatsworth is...I'll have to check when I
get home over the weekend. The NJAA is located thusly:
f you go west from "NYC" toward "A" in Pennsylvania (Allentown) just after
the Continuous blue zone of death ends, there is a series of three dot's
from NNW to SSE. I believe we are located between the center and the top
dot. The center dot would be the Clinton area on Rt 78, and the smaller dot
above must be Washington, NJ. You can clearly see why we at the NJAA must
battle light pollution to keep from being absorbed by the zone of death.
I'll have a much better idea when I get to fly at night on our company's
plane on a business trip...the pilot has agrreed to make a slight detour so
I can get some aerial photos :-)
Note also the paragraph on the effect of particulates and aerosols
on LP, which is apropos of a recent thread on 'meteorobs'...
"Light pollution on the east coast is made much worse by the
condition of the atmosphere, which spreads much more light into
the sky than in the western United States, due to atmospheric
pollution and haze.
>>>WTH>> This is ultimately what ruins the Perseids in NJ every year, since
the haze is edibly thick.
Wayne
>>Lew Gramerp
Bless you, Lew :-)
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