U.S. light pollution map 2015 map showing US light pollution based on Bortle scale/SQM data. See full interactive map atLightPollutionMap.info. U.S. dark sky site list Comprehensive list of dark-sky sites (including DarkSky-sanctioned locations) in the U.S. by state, with Bortle numbers ...
Click the Site Name to open the page with more information. Every site page has links to directions, weather forecasts, and even satellite predictions. Click the Color Zone to see it on the light pollution map. Show102550100250entries
May 19, 2019 952 837 Salisbury, North Carolina Dec 31, 2022 #51 Shasterball said: Yes. Apple took DarkSky, took small parts of it, added it to the below avg weather app, and then tossed the rest away. This is classic Apple from ~2017 on -- water down offerings, get them ...
When people want a different perspective on the world, they may go to the mountains, or the ocean, or admire the endlessness of the night sky. Landscapes so vast as to approach incomprehensibility let you feel small, temporarily lifting the weight of consequence from your shoulders. ...
Results were consistent between the two different back- crosses, though the map from the backcross to D. tenebrosa contained fewer loci (Table 2). All loci that are on the same Muller Element in other Drosophila species were in linkage with each other in our analysis, with the exception of...
“shadow” looks like it’s pointing at the moon (if you look closely, you’ll see it continues past the moon). This is particularly dramatic because of the combination of the setting sun and a vertical exhaust trail. With normal contrails, the sun has to be higher in the sky to ...
It took three sky surveys—conducted at telescopes in two continents, covering one-third of the visible sky, and requiring almost 1,000 observing nights—to prepare for a new project that will create the largest 3-D map of the universe's galaxies and glean new insights about the universe's...
by Tim Stephens,University of California - Santa Cruz This reconstruction of the cosmic web using 37,662 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) was generated by the Monte Carlo Physarum Machine, an algorithm based on the growth patterns of a slime mold. Top: Large-scale visualizati...
Americans with telescopes, cameras and protective glasses staked out viewing spots along a narrow corridor from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the moon blot out the midday sun Monday in what promised to be the most observed and photographed eclipse in
Mayland Earth to Sky Park & Bare Dark Sky Observatory, North Carolina Designated February 2014 This Dark Sky Park, managed by Mayland Community College, opened a new public observatory with a roll-off roof in 2017. It sits at an elevation of 2,736 feet and offers 360-degree views of the...