Re: New York City light pollution question


<offaxis2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The lights did not completely go out in the NYC area that is why you
> did not see a full sky of stars. Air pollution had zero to do with
> (jeeze what a stupid notion). Almost all of northern NJ had power and
> the skyglow from those lights were enough harm views all over the five
> boroughs of NYC, and Westchester.
> look at the satellite pics form that night and you will see a huge
> swatch of lit up land south of NYC. If you looked west or south west
> the sky was no where near as dark as it should have been but it
> gradually got darker as you looked east and north. That is why you
> didn't experience a perfect dark sky in NYC.
>

Here's a good page that illustrates your point:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/photos/blackout.html

I lived in Fairfield County, CT, at the time and, though we were blacked
out, I don't recal dramatically brighter skies.


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