A Global Measure of Light Pollution

[WadeH (Wade)]

A great and very simple excercise for everyone (including kids) is a project on page 6 of the March/April edition of Nightsky magazine.
It is called the Globe at Night project and can be found at:
http://www.globe.gov/GaN/
It is achieved simply by counting the number of naked eye stars in Orion and comparing them to supplied charts.
It would be interesting for iceinspace members to post their home ratings and we could compare each others dark skies, and those from around the world on their web site.
How about it?

[Ric]

At the moment all I've got is the cloudy sky in chart 1 but I'll give it a go when it clears.
I also noticed that their maps are the wrong way up, I never seen Betelgeuse above the belt before

Cheers

[iceman (Mike)]

Good idea Wade, next clear night I'll give it a go.

[sheeny (Al)]

Sounds interesting. I'll have a go too (when the clouds clear)...

Al.

[Ric]

I got a break last night and would estimate that from Queanbeyan I have around magnitude 4-5 skies. Of course at Wamboin there are no lights so that is a whole lot better.

Cheers

[ving (David)]

just looking at the globe at night mappy thing.... the colours in teh map dont match the colours in the legend

i am on teh border of some pinky colour and a medium brown...