My mom lives in Sun City, I used to drive just past the city limits 90's and observe. The most striking time is seeing parking areas in fog, zero light goes anywhere outside the of the lots. The city of SL is trying but Salt Lake is still very bad in respect to lighting.
Wow, Phoenix must have made some big changes since I lived there in the
mid to late '80's. The light pollution was horrible then. I moved there from Salt Lake and Phoenix was obviously more light polluted. It's good to know that improvements can be made.
Mat
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Erik Hansen Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:49 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Government funded observing platforms
Probably the darker the sky the more difficult road, perhaps some where place by helicopter. At any rate this site does sound like it is not a truly "dark sky", as Ed mentioned. I have always been stricken by how much darker the skies are a 1/2 mile from Pheonix Metro, than they are several miles from Salt Lake. A good demonstration of what proper lighting fixtures can do.
Erik
These things were set up 10 miles apart. Some must remain near roads in nice dark areas. -- Joe
------------------------------ On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 8:22 AM MDT Erik Hansen wrote:
Did not see a road, looks like quite a hike.
Great little platforms for setting up in a dark sky area! Do you think we
could get the government to install electrical outlets and bathrooms for us?
-A
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Hi Ed,
Thanks for the tip.
I looked on Google Earth at that area but could not find it.
Here's a screen shot of where I was looking: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/exit62.jpg
Is that the right area? If it is can you see the arrow and help me narrow the search?
Thanks,
patrick
On 26 Aug 2013, at 07:23, Ed wrote:
Patrick,
There is an aviation arrow for the SLC to San Francisco route on top of the hill just north of exit 62 on I-80.
This is the same spot I mentioned some time back as a good place to get an unobstructed view of the western horizon.
Ed
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