Well this is interesting.
"Globe At Night" is a project trying to figure out amounts of light pollution around the world.
http://www.globeatnight.org/index.html
What you do is you find the Orion constellation and then report how many stars you see of it, and your Lat/Lon.
My school is telling us to do it, so it's most likely legit.
So according to the site, what magnitude of light is in your area? I have a 3.
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Sun, 14/03/2010 - 8:11pm
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Globe At Night
Sun, 14/03/2010 - 8:25pm
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ooh looking at constellations is fun.. I only know of two though, Orion and big dipper. It has a really calming effect when you look up at the night sky.
I'll try to do this tomorrow night haha
Wed, 17/03/2010 - 9:44pm
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Yeah, It's really nice when you can lie somewhere where nothing is in sight, not trees or houses or towers in your peripheral vision as you look up.
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Wed, 17/03/2010 - 9:55pm
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Theres a crazy amount of light pollution in my area. Its like the daytime even in the middle of the night, you can almost read a book outside. The only time you cna really see the stars in when there is a power outage
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Thu, 18/03/2010 - 7:33am
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[quote=Starr_2525]Theres a crazy amount of light pollution in my area. Its like the daytime even in the middle of the night, you can almost read a book outside. The only time you cna really see the stars in when there is a power outage
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Kinda ironic that your username is starr. :P
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Thu, 18/03/2010 - 9:07am
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Might be good if we could see Orion.. Not in the Southern Skies at the moment. We have Scorpio in our skies and I think (correct me if I am wrong here) Greek mythology states that the 2 constellations were banned to opposite sides of the skies because they had a fight or something like that
Fri, 19/03/2010 - 11:40pm
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I'm not sure about it being Greek mythology, but I do recall something about Scorpio and another constellation getting in a fight.
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