Re: New York City light pollution question

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.


Nero wrote:
> When the lights went out throughout New York City a couple of years
> ago(and a lot of the northeast for that matter) my sky didn't
> magically turn chock full of stars like if I were out in the country.
> Sure I noticed many more stars but not like if I were out in the
> country, why is this? Does light pollution stay in the air for days :)

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