Larry W Brown
Nightscape Pollution
Milky Way - Shenandoah National Park, VA
Did you know that the Milky Way is now hidden from a third of humanity? The problem: light pollution. And the problem is growing steadily each year. I have noticed a lot more light pollution in Big Meadows night shoots this year, as compared to previous years. And if you shoot from an overlook like I done w/ this photo, your end result will most likely look like this. I'm grateful that I can still see the MW from SNP, but it'd be nice to view it in complete darkness.
The Milky Way, the brilliant river of stars that has dominated the night sky and human imaginations since time immemorial, is but a faded memory to one-third of humanity and 80 percent of Americans, according to a new global atlas of light pollution produced by Italian and American scientists.
Read more about it in this article from NOAA:
www.noaa.gov/stories/milky-way-now-hidden-third-humanity
3:37 am - 20 seconds @ ISO 3200, f/2.8, w/ a Bower 14mm.
THANKS FOR VIEWING!
Nightscape Pollution
Milky Way - Shenandoah National Park, VA
Did you know that the Milky Way is now hidden from a third of humanity? The problem: light pollution. And the problem is growing steadily each year. I have noticed a lot more light pollution in Big Meadows night shoots this year, as compared to previous years. And if you shoot from an overlook like I done w/ this photo, your end result will most likely look like this. I'm grateful that I can still see the MW from SNP, but it'd be nice to view it in complete darkness.
The Milky Way, the brilliant river of stars that has dominated the night sky and human imaginations since time immemorial, is but a faded memory to one-third of humanity and 80 percent of Americans, according to a new global atlas of light pollution produced by Italian and American scientists.
Read more about it in this article from NOAA:
www.noaa.gov/stories/milky-way-now-hidden-third-humanity
3:37 am - 20 seconds @ ISO 3200, f/2.8, w/ a Bower 14mm.
THANKS FOR VIEWING!