If you liked that, Jim, you'd have been totally floored by the sight you get
on a blacked out Navy ship in mid-Atlantic. Nearest significant light source
about 1500 miles away :-). Its the thing I miss most about active duty.
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Scott Gomez
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brokaw [mailto:jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: Re: [OM] planets, green, film, bracketing
<snip>
A few years back I stayed with a couple friends at the family's 'ranch
house' off the the depths of the California central valley. We were riding
motorcycles, at the races at Laguna Seca, and the house was about 25 miles
inland and down the 101 freeway. We left the festivities on Cannery Row at
about midnight, and after an exit from the freeway, about five miles of
pavement and another two miles or so of dirt, the last half-mile of it not
even a road, we pulled up at the 'ranch house'. This was about 1AM, and we
shut down the bikes, turned off the ignition (which shut off the headlights)
and then I pulled off my helmet... I almost fell over backwards! I had NEVER
seen so many stars...! The full Milky Way spanned the sky, I think we city
boys stood there for about five minutes with our heads back just staring...
You can't see much of anything around here by comparison... We could see the
star colors, and it was magnificent. The nearest source of any light
pollution at all is Soledad prison, about 15 miles away. BTW, the house was
about 3000 square feet four bedroom, a modern suburban house, just out in
the 'middle of nowhere'.
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Jim Brokaw
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