Light pollution in Western Australia ?

[skysurfer]

On the site http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NP...-at-night.html (NASA) there is a large picture of the whole world at night (scroll a bit down) in which WA is particularly bright.
Strange, this area is complete desert.

How can this be explained ? Lots of secret oil drilling ?

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

It was the big wildfires early this year.

Joe

[MortonH]

and the final image is actually a composite of several images taken at different times, so it's showing several wildfires and not one giant one!

[ew (Eric)]

I moved from Perth to Bridgetown a small country town in the southwest where the skies are very clear, from my house M31 is a bit tricky to capture so I thought a 400km trip north to Gingin should improve things looking south and west the light pollution was quite bright from Perth which is growing very fast. If it wasn't for GPS I would have been lost and I moved 6 years ago, I'll just setup my gear in the front yard this November As for bushfires far too common the sad thing is most are deliberate.

[Astropleiades]

Hello,

In fact, after reading these explications, I deduce there is fiew light pollution in Australia...
A dream... in France, we name it a dream!

(If you want do discover "orange sky", you know how to go.)

Astro-frendly,
Astropleiades