Click here if you are having trouble logging into the forums Privacy Policy | Please read our Terms of Service | Signup and Troubleshooting FAQ | Problems? PM a Red or a Green Gu.... uh, User You are not logged in. [Login] Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Announcements and News >> Light Pollution Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 dunc.ellliott super member Reged: 10/06/06 Posts: 177 Loc: Syston, Leicester,UK Nice suprise when i got home       #2437731 - 06/03/08 05:24 PM Attachment (95 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I got home from work & the county council workmen were replacing the old awful orange sky glow street light with white one that point down. Here is some that they have yet to replace. -------------------- Meade 8" LX200R + Dell Inspiron 1501 + DSI + DSI pro ii + colour filter set + spc900nc + Fuji S5500 Post Extras:       dunc.ellliott super member Reged: 10/06/06 Posts: 177 Loc: Syston, Leicester,UK Re: Nice suprise when i got home [Re: dunc.ellliott]       #2437737 - 06/03/08 05:26 PM Attachment (78 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   And here is what they are replacing them with, you can still see a couple of old ones at the end of the picture on the next street. Both were taken at the same time i think the orange one over exposed the picture but i couldn't take too may shots for fear of the neighbours thinking i might be spying. Edited by dunc.ellliott (06/03/08 05:33 PM) Post Extras:       csa/montana Astro Ambassador Reged: 05/14/05 Posts: 25818 Loc: montana Re: Nice suprise when i got home [Re: dunc.ellliott]       #2437930 - 06/03/08 07:00 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Wow, that will be nice to have those replaced! Enjoy the night sky, now -------------------- Carol AstroTech 16" Dob (Thanks ASTRONOMICS!) AstroTech 66ED / Vixen 80MF/AstroTech Voyager Masuyama's 7.5, 15, 25W, 35mm, Tak LE 5mm 7mm Pentax XL, 10mm Pentax XW 14mm Meade 4000 UWA 22mm Pan, 35mm Pan DreamCatcher Dobservatory, #2 Post Extras:       RussL Pooh-Bah Reged: 03/18/08 Posts: 1166 Loc: Cayce, SC Re: Nice suprise when i got home [Re: dunc.ellliott]       #2438427 - 06/03/08 11:12 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice. I hope that catches on in my neighborhood. -------------------- --Russell "Akita mani yo." Observe everything as you walk. (--Lakota) Celestron Celestar 8 Standard SCT, f10 Celestron 80mm Wide View ref., f5 Criterion RV-6 Dynascope, Newt., f8, (c. 1962) Sears Discoverer 60mm ref., f7, (c. 1973) Celestron Ultima DX 10x50, 6.5 TFOV Tasco 7x35 wide Several mediocre eyepieces Post Extras:       Illinois professor emeritus Reged: 12/18/06 Posts: 527 Loc: near Chicago, Illinois USA Re: Nice suprise when i got home [Re: RussL]       #2438915 - 06/04/08 08:51 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   It would be nice like that in Chicago and suburbs.........it will get more stars in my backyard! -------------------- Astronomer since 1975! Meade 16" Lightbridge Dobsonian Orion 10" SkyQuest Classic Dobsonian Tele Vue Eyepieces Orion Expanse Wide-Field 6mm eyepiece 4.5" F5 Reflector since 1982! Orion Narrowband and SkyGlow filters Member of IDA, let's fight light pollution! Old Edmund 6"F8...donated to cousins Super Polaris C8...donated to Byron Observatory in Illinois Post Extras:       Mozhoven professor emeritus Reged: 05/26/05 Posts: 727 Loc: Middletown, CT Re: Nice suprise when i got home [Re: Illinois]       #2501901 - 07/05/08 11:47 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   When I bought my house, one of those old dome-style lights was right at the end of my driveway. I seemed to remember someone saying you could request that the city replace it - so I did via they town's official website (there was actually link to report light trespass!) Anyway, long story short, they replaced it with one that aims mostly down and not so much laterally. It's still a bright light and annoying because of it's proximity to my only backyard observing area, but when you compare it to its brothers and sisters down the street I am quite lucky. Now if only my neighbor would turn down that darn sensitivity on his security light (placed 30' up on his roof)... -------------------- Jeremy Davis Orion XT12i - 12" f/4.9 "Alfred E. Newtonian" Wyorock Custom Crayford 13mm Ethos The "Freshmaker" 12x60 Oberwerk Binos www.jdavisgallery.com Post Extras:       panhard Carpal Tunnel Reged: 01/20/08 Posts: 2088 Loc: 43.88 n 79.17 w Re: Nice suprise when i got home [Re: Mozhoven]       #2507119 - 07/08/08 08:20 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Even that it is over exposed we can still see the pattern that it makes on the ground. That is the new standard here. -------------------- 10"Sky watcher dob 8 & 17mm Hyperion eye pieces 12x50 binos A love for this hobby "What goes around comes around." "She who must be obeyed." Herb c cloudy nights my # 1 site 43.53°n 79.17°w http://cleardarksky.com/c/MtAlbrt1ONkey.html Post Extras:       Pages: 1 Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 1 registered and 0 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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