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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. I recently read a book about this issue.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:40 PM

Nov 2017

I'm pretty sure it was The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard.

I had the good fortune to spend the first 14 years of my life in rural Upstate New York, where we had wonderful dark skies. I was fascinated by the night sky and learned a bit of astronomy as a child.

I've lived in various big cities most of my life since then. Currently I live in Santa Fe, NM, where I have decently dark skies, but not truly dark ones. I'd love to spend some time say, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, far far away from any artificial light. Sigh. Maybe someday before I die.

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