light pollution map

[JimIrish (Jim)]

lightpollutionmap.info has recently become useless because advertisements prevent use of the sidebar menus. Anyone know a work-around? I can't close the damned things! Jim (who obsesses about sky brightness, and undertakes research as a citizen scientist)

[AstroViking (Steve)]

Hi Jim,

Try a different browser to access the site. I use 'Brave' because it's more privacy oriented than any of the others.

I just hit the light pollution site with it, and I'm seeing zero advertising.

Cheers,
V.

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Use an adblocker like Ublock origin, no more ads

[EpickCrom (Joe)]

Hi Jim

Try David J Lorenz Light Pollution Atlas. It is updated until 2022. I find it is an excellent resource and even gives the sky brightness readings for individual addresses!

Clear ( and dark) Skies
Joe

[rdahni (Robert)]

Jim


I use the Adblocker Ultimate extension for Firefox. Works well.


Robert

[skysurfer]

For me it works as well in Firefox (122) using ublock origin. Zero ads.

[PaulSthcoast (Paul)]

Hi Jim,

Seestar app has global light pollution map.

Free download too.

Paul.

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

You can import a light pollution layer into Google Earth. It’s just a colour shaded map layer. No interactive click info nor selection of data functions. Just colour shading.

After importing, you need to pull and spread the overlay to match the underlying map. I have not been able to get a perfect match over the whole of Oceania so I just align it for my local region. If I ever want it for another area a long way away, I can just realign it to that area.




Joe

[AussieTrooper (Ben)]

The days of intrusive advertising are definitely back. I'm old enough to remember when the flashing ads were banned and webpages got a whole lot more useable. Now it's unstoppable videos, fake 'x' to close an ad, ads that make some webpages pretty much unusable, not to mention incredibly loud ads on youtube.

I use ghostery which sorts all of this out. The occasional news site doesn't like it, but www.lightpollutionmap.info works just fine with it.

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Doesn't seem overly intrusive to me?

[Garyh]

Not long ago, I had problems in Chrome with a add that I couldn't get rid off but now it seems fixed? Duckduckgo worked fine then and now.

[pgc hunter]

Use adblock. I wouldn't be without it.

[refractordude]

EpickCrom


I have been having problems with such maps. Thanks for your recommendation which works like a charm. Here is the link https://djlorenz.github.io/astronomy...rlay/dark.html

[Tchoklat (Tony)]

Originally Posted by Garyh

Not long ago, I had problems in Chrome with a add that I couldn't get rid off but now it seems fixed? Duckduckgo worked fine then and now.

Yep. DuckDuckGo is the goods.

[Leo.G (Leo)]

Youtube now have ads mid video.
Yes, DuckDuckGo and a good ad blocker. I miss the days when the internet wasn't about selling you everything they can think of based on your search history. Google are EVIL.