Starship Asterisk*

Just below the Tidewater lights are the lights of Kitty Hawk where one century ago man first left the Earth in flight. What are the Tidewater lights? And by "lights of Kitty Hawk", do you mean lights of a town Kitty Hawk? (or the site itself) Do you mean right above the lower-right solar-...

Appropriate. One day after Darkened Cities, an artist's view of nighttime over large cities, the APOD is a real image of nighttime Earth: overwhelming light pollution and a sky few people see anymore. Thank you APOD editors for showing us two possible futures. Ah, but which one will we choose? I ch...

For a very interesting contrast, click on the Pudong link in the first sentence of the description on the APOD page, which is also at the beginning of this page.This will take you to the Wikipedia page for Pudong and a different sort of nighttime photograph. Not quite the same angle, but close. Pud...

Pretty photo, nice concept ... but the most depressing, sad thing I've seen in a long time.

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I have studied the apod pictures since they started. Most of them are quite interesting, especially the explanations. It lets us see beyond our normal vision. What I don't see or hear is the explaintion of the very visible brown layer of pollution that is not supposed to be there. If we continue to...

All I could think of watching this video was how horrible the light pollution was over practically every land mass the ISS passed over. Soon the only way anyone will be able to see the night sky at all will be to go into space themselves! Depressing, depressing, depressing! :cry: Yep that's what I ...

Ann wrote:

Ann

Orin, by the way, I love your coffee video. Particularly the "coffee pot houses".

Indeed .. and I love the sound of vinyl! Thanks for the video.

in small print: Cropped from photo - a 3 wheeled forklift with a flat tire.