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<p align="left">The Moon is the brightest object in the night sky and sometimes imagers have a hard time getting a short enough exposure. But this image is 6 hours long! The Moon is clearly overexposed but not too much as it traces its nightly movement across the sky of the Belgium city of Ghent. It is a fisheye photograph from a window in Danny’s roof. Curved trails of a few stars are visible, but as in most cities the sky is obscured by bright spotlights, in this case from the local prison – good luck on getting them to use a full cutoff light shield! Security is the latest justification for self-important bureaucratic yahoos to waste energy lighting the sky. A recent horrendous example is that Department of Transportation sheds in small towns all across North Dakota are being “protected” with two 400-watt floodlights, unshielded of course. Erasing the dark night sky of the northern plains is another casualty, apparently, of the unending fight against terrorism.</p>
 
<p align="left">The Moon is the brightest object in the night sky and sometimes imagers have a hard time getting a short enough exposure. But this image is 6 hours long! The Moon is clearly overexposed but not too much as it traces its nightly movement across the sky of the Belgium city of Ghent. It is a fisheye photograph from a window in Danny’s roof. Curved trails of a few stars are visible, but as in most cities the sky is obscured by bright spotlights, in this case from the local prison – good luck on getting them to use a full cutoff light shield! Security is the latest justification for self-important bureaucratic yahoos to waste energy lighting the sky. A recent horrendous example is that Department of Transportation sheds in small towns all across North Dakota are being “protected” with two 400-watt floodlights, unshielded of course. Erasing the dark night sky of the northern plains is another casualty, apparently, of the unending fight against terrorism.</p>
<blockquote><p align="right">&#8212; [mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</blockquote>
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<p align="left"><p align="left"><b>Tomorrow's LPOD: </b> tbd (to be determined)</p>
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<p align="right">&#8212; [mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p></blockquote>
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[March 29, 2005|Mee Too!!]] </p>
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<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[March 31, 2005|S by SE]] </p>
 
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[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Charles A. Wood]</p>
 
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Latest revision as of 15:12, 15 March 2015

A Looong Lunar Exposure

LPOD-2005-03-30.jpeg

Image Credit: Danny Caes


A Looong Lunar Exposure

The Moon is the brightest object in the night sky and sometimes imagers have a hard time getting a short enough exposure. But this image is 6 hours long! The Moon is clearly overexposed but not too much as it traces its nightly movement across the sky of the Belgium city of Ghent. It is a fisheye photograph from a window in Danny’s roof. Curved trails of a few stars are visible, but as in most cities the sky is obscured by bright spotlights, in this case from the local prison – good luck on getting them to use a full cutoff light shield! Security is the latest justification for self-important bureaucratic yahoos to waste energy lighting the sky. A recent horrendous example is that Department of Transportation sheds in small towns all across North Dakota are being “protected” with two 400-watt floodlights, unshielded of course. Erasing the dark night sky of the northern plains is another casualty, apparently, of the unending fight against terrorism.

Chuck Wood

Yesterday's LPOD: Mee Too!!

Tomorrow's LPOD: S by SE



Author & Editor:
Charles A. Wood

 


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