o1d_dude
o1der than dirt
Reged: 10/03/07
Posts: 2274
Loc: The TV/SV Wolfpack
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Excellent resource, Jon.
Your application confirms my fears. I live in a red zone about 2-3 miles from the white.
*sigh*
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Kit
'Don’t worry about what telescope you own, or its quality. Just get out under the night sky, and enjoy God’s wondrous universe.' - Thomas M Back
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Brooklyn
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 07/24/08
Posts: 870
Loc: Central New Jersey
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UGH!!! i am located in a RED ZONE!!
Central new jersey isn't really great for astronomy. At least I'm not located in a white zone 
Also, a dark site with light polluted skies is better than not having a dark site with stray light coming in, with less light pollutants.
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WNCAGC
sage
Reged: 06/25/08
Posts: 259
Loc: NC Mountains (God's country)
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Near red zone for me but I have places to drive to that are quite dark.
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Octavarium
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Reged: 08/02/08
Posts: 62
Loc: East Haven, CT
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All red with surrounding orange 10+ miles away. Lousy CT!
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Series 4000 plossol eyepiece/filter set
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IngramDW
newbie
Reged: 02/01/08
Posts: 1
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Jshine,
Tell me more about the finder.
What kind of reply have you received from IDA Tucson?
I am affiliated with Dark Skies Northwest @ www.scn.org/darksky
Maybe I can find help here if you are still looking for someone to take over your work.
Dave Ingram 206-372-7292
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NyxAither
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 09/11/07
Posts: 1269
Loc: Arlington VA
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Great program! I live in the middle of a the Washington DC white zone. I have land in Columbia VA which is barely in the blue.
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Thomas
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Startraffic
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Reged: 02/12/06
Posts: 14
Loc: Maryland
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Thomas,
I know the feeling. I'm up in Gaithersburg. I took my son out camping over in Haymarket & he asked "What's that white thing up there dad?" I said "That's the Milky Way son. You can't see it at home because of the street lights." He said "Oh, that sucks. It's pretty cool looking."
I found a place out in WV Spruce Knob Nat'l Park that has camping and is DARK. I think he & I will go there so he can really see some stars, get his wilderness camping badge, & Astronomy pin. Typically we only get mag 4-5 on a good moonless night.
Star. 
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Ptarmigan
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mccambjd
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Reged: 10/24/08
Posts: 13
Loc: Swarthmore, PA
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For more LP info, look at this CN thread in the Beginners Forum
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Jim
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STiMULi
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Reged: 11/06/08
Posts: 60
Loc: Tucson, Arizona, USA
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Last year I wrote a web application that uses the Google Maps API & a map of North American light pollution from the Dark Sky Association to provide a guide to potential dark observing sites in the US.
Thanks very much for an excellent site!
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Scott
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Sirquack
sage
Reged: 05/03/08
Posts: 229
Loc: Iowa
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Just came across this thread, great website... I'm right on a pinkish/yellow zone, but within 20 min to green and 30+ to blue...
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Hoondiggi95
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Reged: 04/22/09
Posts: 34
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Cool!!! My neighborhood has the worst possible light pollution!!! 
Btw great job on the program! 
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MrKrink
professor emeritus
Reged: 02/20/09
Posts: 610
Loc: Lawndale NC, USA
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That is a really great resource and I like the way it is set up, I would hate to see it gone. You have done a really great job with it.
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Stuart
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greenglass
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Reged: 01/22/06
Posts: 557
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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I'm in the Great White North (Canada), 1 mile from the centre of a white patch, in a white patch and the sky does look yellow-brown in all directions. Ew. When it snows it is quite bright at night. I used to be in a red zone and it was darker towards the south away from white zone.
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nytecam
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Reged: 08/20/05
Posts: 5996
Loc: London UK
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Fantastic resource - even from the other side of the pond  Is there a name for the vertical east/west light devide through USA - almost as if two nations 
Note also the Alberta oilfield LP in Canada 
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veebs2
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Reged: 03/13/07
Posts: 296
Loc: DeKalb, IL
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You are correct...the vertical line east/west line is very significant. There is no geographical reason for this. I know the Western US has large areas of agricultural land.
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Paul
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Tony Flanders
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Reged: 05/18/06
Posts: 3934
Loc: Cambridge, MA, USA
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You are correct...the vertical line east/west line is very significant. There is no geographical reason for this.
It coincides roughly with 100 degrees west, and it's the line between areas where crops can be grown without irrigation and areas that are traditionally rangeland -- or completely unused. A matter of precipitation.
A population map of the world today correlates extremely well with the fertility of the soil and the abundance of rainfall. A few areas (like parts of Arizona and Nevada) have been settled heavily in the post-agricultural era, but those are the exception, not the rule.
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First and foremost observing love: naked eye.
Second, binoculars.
Last but not least, telescopes.
And I sometimes dabble with cameras.
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Starmon
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Reged: 05/25/09
Posts: 17
Loc: Front Range Northern Colorado
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Greetings,
Great work Jon, I found your app. a while ago and added 6 sites myself. Albers had compiled a list of about 400 dark sky sites with Lat/Long. Several years ago, using ArcMap9.2 I converted the list to a .dbf and overlaid it on a georeferenced layer of Cinzano's light pollution zones in the US. Currently with the NPS, I am producing In-Situ Light Pollution Hemispheres from data taken by the Night Sky Monitoring Team. We are in the process of re-processing the data, so that it will also show JUST the light pollution, from most of the National Parks in the US (~300).
It would seem to be a very good idea to link all this great data on LP, to help reinforce our case and implement solutions. A web-ring of sorts? Dark Skies!! Shield and point those lights down.
Several of these preliminary hemisphere models have been post on the in-Situ LP Hemisphere thread.
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Think cosmic,
TomT
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Fimpster
professor emeritus
Reged: 09/24/09
Posts: 573
Loc: Gould Belt
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I'm a little late to this thread but I just found your website Jon. Excellent work! Thanks.
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xsmatt81
sage
Reged: 02/13/08
Posts: 276
Loc: Las Vegas, NV
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well damn. I feel somewhat fortunate living in las vegas. Its only an hour or two drive to get away from light pollution
after seeing the eastern seaboard on that map WOW.
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