How To: Overlay Light Pollution Map in Google Earth

[iceman]

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 (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?projects) page, or directly by clicking the link below:

Overlay Light Pollution Map in Google Earth (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?id=63,404,0,0,1,0)

Thanks to Andrew and Eric for writing the article. If you'd like to submit an article or review to IceInSpace, please Contact Me (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/?contact).

[iceman]

Article uploaded

[sheeny]

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]

Awesome!

Thanks for that :)

[DaveO]

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

[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????

[MrB]

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

[swannies1983]

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.