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Originally Posted by chrisp9au
Makes one wonder how anyone there can do any astronomy with the pollution as it is.
I would imagine others have had similar experiences?
Cheers
Chris
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Hi Chris,
I first went to China on one of the very first inaugural Sydney to Beijing
flights in 1985.
In those days, cities such as Beijing had millions of bicycles, only
a small number of taxis, a few government cars and a
reasonable number of public busses. There was no high-rise except for
a small number of Beijing hotels.
Long before the incredible industrial transformation, the silence was
only broken by the tinkling of thousands of bicycle bells.
But even then, the skies in cities such as Beijing and Qingdao were
usually dull and hazy. The dust haze from the Gobi desert and cooking
using fire places resulted in a lot of particulate matter in the air well
before the wheels of industry began to turn.
So decade by decade, it has only become worse. The cities in the
east aren't exactly an amateur astronomy haven.
