Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Dark Skies are Fading

we moved it there, and moved it back.
The Tal-120 in our chalet on our dark skies trip.

We recently lugged out TAL 120 to a dark skies site for a week.

Guess what, it was pretty cloudy all week, and we didn't get any observing done. 
In the end, on the final evening, I just got out the binoculars for a casual glance about between the band's of cloud passing overhead. 
It was enough to demonstrate that the site had "Dark Skies" potential, subject to the weather.

But many of the World's folks do get dark skies, and it is expected to get worse. Here is a study on just that subject:
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1600377

No comments:

Post a Comment