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From: <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Where I live - was [OM] How to photograph starry
night skys?
>
> On Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 18:04, Barry B. Bean
> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote re "Re: [OM] [OT] Where I live - was [O" saying:
> ...
> > If i'm in the darkroom long enough, I can read from my timer, and can
see
> > shapes from the light of my radio/CD player power LED.
Ah. Excuse me - That is NOT a darkroom!
>
> You' better turn your back on those to load any film to or from a roll.
> My eyes are as sensitive as that too, and probably most eyes are after 20
> minutes or so.
>
> > >>There are lots of folks who can testify to the
> > >> ability of the human eye to adapt to low light conditions.
> >
> > >Yes, there are lots who can testify that they saw Elvis last year also.
> >
> > He's easy to spot without a light. Those rhinestones still sparkle.
> >
> > That said, I can assure you that normal functioning in the woods, on
> > cloudy moonless nights is still entirely possible.
>
> Not in the real boonies. Only if there's town lights within 40 miles, or
> cities within 150, reflecting off the clouds - which is 980f the US, of
> course...
Town of 4,000 20 miles away.
Minimal street lightiing (just downtown which, ain't big)
We were talking stars (I think) so, I assumed no clouds..
>
> Is your sky really dark? See
> http://www.lightpollution.it/worldatlas/pages/fig1.htm
> There's precious few black areas in the US or Europe. Compare it to the
> rest of the world.
>
> Of course, your ground may be flatter or your trees sparser or your ground
> whiter or your shins hardier, or you may not want to wait 20 minutes.
YMMV.
>
> Tom
>
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> even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
> awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself --
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