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Night Sky During Blackout

yhelothar

yhelothar

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Hey, Anyone here take a good look at the night sky during the blackout? Must been like the first time you seen so many stars. Could you see the Milky Way? Anyone take any pics? I'm interested in seeing how the sky of New York city looks like at night during the blackout 🙂
 
heh yeah i was kinda hoping for a mass blackout in so. california so i can see it 🙂
but there's always just small local blackouts... doesn't make a difference 🙁
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
would be nice to blackout around here just to see it
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Join the Navy, get on a ship in the middle of the ocean and then look up. It is amazing how many stars are really up there that we normally don't see.

Cruise ships aren't blacked out as Navy ships are.

Satellite photos of the NE USA the night before, and the night of the blackout.

before

night of
 
Join the Navy, get on a ship in the middle of the ocean and then look up. It is amazing how many stars are really up there that we normally don't see.

Cruise ships aren't blacked out as Navy ships are.
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Good point!

There is no comparison to watching the sky from the deck of yacht in bluewater. 🙂

It seems like you really need to be at least 100 NM from any major city to get a really dark sky. Once your eyes get acquainted the wow factor is astounding especically if you've never seen it before.

On land most skies during a blackout are filled with lightning. Nothing wrong with that either.

Maiora
 
nice pics. but you forgot to point out that cleveland literally went from white to BLACK there is no light in cleveland at all. the other lights are from aurora (near me six flags is there) and they never lost power. they are literally 5 miles south of me, and did not lose power while just south of them did.

our power system is fuxored

MIKE
 
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
still not dark enough to see milky way in the so cal deserts...
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i saw it not more than an hour away from austin tx, about 10 minutes from fredericksburg
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
still not dark enough to see milky way in the so cal deserts...
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i saw it not more than an hour away from austin tx, about 10 minutes from fredericksburg
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Were you at enchanted rock? The night sky is amazing there when the humidity is low.
 
Originally posted by: Broohaha
Originally posted by: Swanny
In rural Iowa you can see it all the time🙂
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In Soviet Russia, night sky can see YOU all the time!
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C'mon man... please! The soviet russia jokes are TIRED. Let them rest in peace, to be brought out again in 3 years time once when someone says "what were the stupid things you used to say back then?"
 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
nice pics. but you forgot to point out that cleveland literally went from white to BLACK there is no light in cleveland at all. the other lights are from aurora (near me six flags is there) and they never lost power. they are literally 5 miles south of me, and did not lose power while just south of them did.

our power system is fuxored

MIKE
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The light isn't from Aurora. Aurora doesn't have nearly enough lights. It is more than likely from the Akron/Canton area because they never lost power.
 
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
still not dark enough to see milky way in the so cal deserts...
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Then you're blind. I see it all the time in the high desert outside California City.
 
HEY !!

I don't understand the picture during the blackout! I live in Columbus and the power didn't go out here !!


maybe it was clouds or something.
 
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