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Clear Sky Clock: Light pollution overlay
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on Thursday January 03, @08:26PM
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Ogle Earth has information on this network link. From their summary : "Clear Sky Clock forecasts when in North America your nights might be clear enough for some good sky gazing. Such forecasts are highly local, which means there is an obvious opportunity for a geosavvy solution here. And indeed:
You can drill down on your local region using a Google Map; each area has its own home page, for example for Vernonia, Oregon, from which you can additionally get a light pollution map. The very cool thing about the light pollution map is that you can also get it as a KML image overlay. This way you can find the darkest spots with precision."
To see screenshots of it and get the network link, head on over to the Ogle Earth blog.
You can drill down on your local region using a Google Map; each area has its own home page, for example for Vernonia, Oregon, from which you can additionally get a light pollution map. The very cool thing about the light pollution map is that you can also get it as a KML image overlay. This way you can find the darkest spots with precision."
To see screenshots of it and get the network link, head on over to the Ogle Earth blog.
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