Light pollution article from The Planetary Society
Stars Above, Earth Below
Astronomy and Space Exploration in America's National Parks
Acadia National Park, Maine -- Earlier in the
week I was down in Orlando at this years' Division
of Planetary Sciences meeting ... I then jetted
back to Maine where I caught the last mail boat
out to Isle au Haut, Acadia's version of backcountry.
The park service keeps a small cabin located pretty
much equidistant from just about everything else
on this lonely little island, and that's where I
spent the last couple of days. No running water,
no electricity, just me alone in the woods.
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