bigbeck
(professor emeritus)
07/12/09 05:18 PM
Re: Is orange Zone 5 bad???

Quote:

I cant even see the big dipper anymore with my naked eye just the handle.






You're lucky, going by the LP map, you have several yellow sites within an hours drive. You also have a few green zones less than 2 hours away. I have to drive 3.5 hours to hit green - but it's worth it. I don't do it often as I have a yellow zone just 50 minutes away.
I,like you, live on a red/white border about 40 miles from Philly. I can't see anything in my north and west skies up to about 60 - 70 degrees from the horizon. The south is ok but much of the sky is blocked by trees and houses and porch lights. I usually observe either at an orange zone (20 minute ride, or a yellow zone (50 minute ride). It looks like your options are:

1. Move
2. Drive to a local dark site
3. Quit astronomy
4. Suffer at your present location

Don



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