The southern sky, featuring Sagittarius and Scorpius.
Top - Leamington, UT, pop. 217
Bottom - Orem, UT, in a metropolitan area of ~400,000
I've attempted to match sky brightness to how it appeared to my eyes. Best viewed large.
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S.Barnes 53 months ago | reply
Would you be willing to release this with just a creative commons+attribution, or creative commons+attribution+share alike license? It would be a great addition to the Wikipedia page on light pollution, the comparison is amazing!
jpstanley 53 months ago | reply
@S.Barnes: Done. Take a look at this comparison too.
S.Barnes 53 months ago | reply
Added both to the article on light pollution and wikicommons. Thanks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution
Pietro Impagliazzo 33 months ago | reply
It's a shame that we miss such a beautiful sky. I've only contemplated a sky like this when I was at the country and power went down, I was mesmerized because I had never seen how the sky really was.