Petapixel:
Want to see light pollution changes photos of the starry night sky? Photographer Sriram Murali‘s new time-lapse short film will show you. Titled “Lost in Light,” it shows different locations with progressively lower levels of light pollution.
“Imagine if we lived under skies full of stars. That reminder we are a tiny part of this cosmos, the awe and a special connection with this remarkable world would make us much better beings,” he continues. “But in reality, most of us live under heavily light polluted skies and some have never even seen the Milky Way. We take the skies for granted and are rather lost in our busy lives without much care for the view of the stars.”
If you’ve never had the opportunity to get far away from city lights to see the “true” night sky, you owe it to yourself to do it. Awe inspiring.
These are pretty cool photos too
http://imgur.com/gallery/Yrb9S
Having grown up in rural farmland parts of the US and currently living in Wyoming where I have gone on camping trips, I have never seen anything much better than “Class 6: Bright suburban sky”.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong.
That reminder we are a tiny part of this cosmos, the awe and a special
connection with this remarkable world would make us much better beings
Anyone with even a casual awareness of how horrible human beings have always been in groups would know that’s utter bollocks – and this especially includes pre-industrial human beings in small settlements where dark was really, really, really dark.
(Truly dark skies are great!
But they don’t magically make us “much better beings” because of hippie blathering.
They demonstrably don’t, because we have the entire pre-industrial history of mankind as a comparison.)
I live in New England in one of the darker light pollution areas and I’ve seen better than the class 6 pics here. At least I think I have. Some of these are not all that accurate. It seems as if the sun is setting or rising in a few. The only way to know for sure would be for it to be pitch black out. All locations should be shot at there darkest. I don’t think they were here.
Greendrop Lake in Chilliwack Provincial Park (not Cultus) used to have an incredible view of the night sky, but that was many years ago. It’s a dream of mine to take my kid camping somewhere with an amazing sky like that.
Pre-industrial humans didn’t have as much context for what they were seeking in the night sky. We now have the ability to provide that.
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I live near two Finger Finger Lakes and seeing the night sky over a lake is breath taking on clear nights! The best night sky is during the winter.