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Idaho Gets Official Recognition for Its Stellar Night Sky
Popular Mechanics ^
| December 26, 2017
| David Grossman
Posted on 12/27/2017 6:27:39 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan
I am still trying to get to Oki-Tex in far western Oklahoma.
It’s not only dark there, it’s dry. Suppose to be one of the darkest places in the lower 48.
Seeing the Milky Way isn’t that hard if you know what you’re looking for. I see it all the time from where I live, about 2 miles out of town and about 1 mile from a Sam’s/Wal-mart complex. On the other hand, east of me is pretty much nothing until you get to Morocco.
Our Dark Sky site about 60 miles out of town, does have some light domes, but, on a dry night, you can see dark lanes in the Milky Way that you didn’t even know were there. No problems with seeing 12+ magnitude galaxies and nebula.
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12/27/2017 7:40:41 AM PST
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Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: C19fan
The night sky over Colorado National Monument is reasonably dark—especially compared to, say, Tokyo. Once a year our astronomy club puts on a program for a group of Japanese students who are studying to become travel agents and are touring the western U.S. on a field trip. Most of them have scarcely seen stars before.
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12/27/2017 8:19:30 AM PST
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snarkpup
(The swamp is draining; and the alligators are allegating.)
To: glorgau
Most states have a “White Mountains.”
To: ProtectOurFreedom
> Most states have a “White Mountains.”
How many have more visitors than Yosemite and Yellowstone combined?
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12/27/2017 9:55:44 AM PST
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glorgau
To: glorgau
Sure helps when the White Mountains are a suburb of Boston...
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12/27/2017 9:58:39 AM PST
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who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: C19fan
The likely result of too many CA transplants. After all, they’re not too bright.
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12/27/2017 11:59:09 AM PST
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M1078
To: C19fan
When it is really dark you can see the lines of the constellations...
To: WayneS
To: minnesota_bound
When it is really dark you can see the lines of the constellations...
Those are just the streetlights for the hyperspeed highways ...
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12/27/2017 12:39:53 PM PST
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BlueLancer
(Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
To: minnesota_bound
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12/27/2017 12:46:11 PM PST
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WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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