Development of our rural countryside is rapidly increasing due to emergent industries like oil and gas. A single industrial site is often lit up like a little town on the map making one wonder if residential, commercial, or industrial development is the true light pollution problem?
Click on the Images below for an animation comparing Light Pollution levels in 2003 to 2012.
It’s that time of year when Cygnus rises high over head and displays a multitude of nebulous treasure. This mosaic is only a portion of the Cygnus constellation but represents a large patch of sky almost 9 x 9 degrees. This is only a test framing as I create a game plan for a summer long imaging project. For a sense of scale, I have included a gibbous moon which was not part of the original image as well as a full scale crop of the Crescent Nebula, bottom right, to show the full size scale of the original 83 megapixel image.
