- beautiful - 1-four-three
- Ethereal...Also oddly reminiscent of an alien planet, perhaps Vulcan? - fuzzybeard
red skies at night
**Update: Slashdot posted an article about this picture. I'll post a screenshot of the traffic graph later this week. Yikes! In the meantime, spread the word on Digg and add your light pollution images to the group.**
2009 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo's observations of Venus, Saturn and Jupiter published in Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger). To improve scientific literacy, the NOAO and NASA are promoting dark sky initiatives in 2009 to draw attention to the problem of light pollution which obscures nearly all night sky colors and objects except for the moon and a few bright stars and planets.
In honor and support of the dark sky initiatives I have created a "Flat Earth society" group for the pictorial preservation and documentation of non-natural illumination of urban and suburban environs. Anyone may join and add images to the group: The Illuminati Project - Red Skies at Night
By showcasing the beauty of light pollution I hope our collective efforts will raise awareness and educate fellow Earthmates to lower energy consumption and become more curious about the world outside. Please snap a photo, then turn off the lights.
Additional info:
www.astronomy2009.org/
www.darkskiesawareness.org/
www.darksky.org
ngm.nationalgeographic.com/geopedia/Light_Pollution
Comments and faves
jesse1715301, Jeff Pang, rcvernors, melcir.meri, and 59 other people added this photo to their favorites.
jesse1715301 (53 months ago | reply)
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Wow what an amazing photo.
lotusbluelight (53 months ago | reply)
A great image!! -- Much admired by this member of "***EARTHCARE Actions!! ~ 'FIRST-THE EARTH!' Photo-ART AWD+FV2" Group. You are invited to exhibit it in our pool - with tag, firsttheearth.
Spectacular!
lotusbluelight (53 months ago | reply)
Awesome shot!!
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IITW (53 months ago | reply)
Colors are awesome! Great composition and shot in general.
rcvernors (53 months ago | reply)
Cool!!
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'John' (53 months ago | reply)
SUPERB IMAGE!
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This photo took my BREATH away
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dans le grand bleu (53 months ago | reply)
Good initiative and great colours!!!
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☆Brilliant Photography☆
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david498 (53 months ago | reply)
A+++ Grade Photo
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fabulous capture!
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Simone Tristão (53 months ago | reply)
This brilliant photo is like a shooting star,
totally inspiring!
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jerikojosh (53 months ago | reply)
Wow!! The colors here are simply unreal!! Lovely shot!!!
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This brilliant photo is like a shooting star,
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Nice work.
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m_bauer (53 months ago | reply)
Amazing sky, great work!
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Franc Le Blanc (53 months ago | reply)
This is definitely one of Flickrs Best
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RRG .CA (53 months ago | reply)
his brilliant photo is like a shooting star, splendid!
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This picture was voted Flawlessfrom
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This is definitively a Wow picture
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This is definitively a Wow picture
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Itinerant Wanderer (53 months ago | reply)
☆Brilliant Photography☆
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Bart Reardon (53 months ago | reply)
interesting colours...
seen on the front page of Slashdot (queue pageview increase in 3...2...)
martian cat (53 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called * THE MASTERS OF LIGHT (post 1 ~ award 1), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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martian cat (53 months ago | reply)
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Kickem (53 months ago | reply)
you have been /.ed so expect a ton of new visitors :)
Beautiful picture, maybe I'll have the chance to make one to, my hometown has one of the largest steel plants in EU and many times the sky is red :D
Mimi Ditchie (53 months ago | reply)
Really eye-catching.......
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Nikita Hengbok (53 months ago | reply)
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