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The Bortle dark-sky scale (usually referred to as simply the Bortle scale) is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky's brightness of a particular location. It quantifies the astronomical observability of celestial objects and the interference caused by light pollution .
On May 10, Florida residents were treated to the spectacular sight of the northern lights, compliments of strong solar flares. See what you missed.
The skies over St. Petersburg, Florida, turned purple as Hurricane Milton approached the Florida coast last week, a phenomenon that has been seen in other hurricanes such as Delta, Dorian, and ...
Nearly two dozen witnesses have reported seeing a fireball over Florida’s west coast around 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 12, and some acted fast enough to get video.. The American Meteor Society says ...
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International Dark Sky Week (formerly the National Dark Sky Week) is held during the week of the new moon in April, [1] [2] when people worldwide may turn off their lights to observe the beauty of the night sky without light pollution. This event was founded in 2003 by high school student Jennifer Barlow of Midlothian, Virginia. [3]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s an asteroid. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
Dusk is the darkest part of evening twilight. The time of dusk is the moment at the very end of astronomical twilight, just before the minimum brightness of the night sky sets in, or may be thought of as the darkest part of evening twilight. [4] However, technically, the three stages of dusk are as follows: