How To: Overlay Light Pollution Map in Google Earth

iceman (Mike) · #1 15-06-2007, 07:03 AM

Hi all

Andrew Bundschuh (Kal) and Eric Kingston (erick) have collaborated to write an article describing how to Overlay Light Pollution Map in Google Earth. It's a great tool for working out how dark your observing sites or star parties are.

You can read the article on the IceInSpace Projects and Articles page, or directly by clicking the link below:

Overlay Light Pollution Map in Google Earth

Thanks to Andrew and Eric for writing the article. If you'd like to submit an article or review to IceInSpace, please Contact Me.

iceman (Mike) · #2 15-06-2007, 08:01 AM

Article uploaded

sheeny (Al) · #3 16-06-2007, 08:03 PM

Thanks guys! It's a snack when you know how. I now have an overlay of light pollution covering all of NSW and Vic in Google Earth.

Al.

Starkler (Geoff) · #4 17-06-2007, 12:45 PM

Awesome!

Thanks for that

DaveO (David) · #5 02-07-2007, 03:23 PM

That was a great idea.....and also very depressing when you look at the result!!!

dimma · #6 05-03-2013, 10:04 PM

Does this procedure still work? I just tried this and all that happened was that a 'Big Red X' was placed over the map i wanted to overlay????

MrB (Simon) · #7 06-03-2013, 03:28 AM

Should still work, I did the overlay a few months back.
Whenever I open GE the overlay is still there.

swannies1983 (Dan) · #8 10-03-2013, 07:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dimma

Does this procedure still work? I just tried this and all that happened was that a 'Big Red X' was placed over the map i wanted to overlay????

Yeah I'm getting the red X as well

Fixed it. I think it relates to size of image. I cropped the original image and then did an overlay and it now works.