LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #8   Report Post  
posted to alt.sailing.asa
Martin Baxter
 
Posts: n/a
Default A star to steer by!

Joe wrote:

Many have never seen a dark sky......... Thats criminal.

The map says I'm not going to see many stars until I get offshore 5-10
miles min around here.

Running the Gulf it often becomes easy to navigate by cities glowing
over the horizion.
Freeport has an orange glow, Galveston white, Sargent yellow dimish,
from 30 +miles out

Check out this cool map here to see how dark your skies a

http://www.darksky.org/darksky/darksky_map.html


Thanks Joe, I'm fortunate, limiting magnitude is 6.7 where I am, does't
get too much better anywhere else.

Cheers
Marty
------------ And now a word from our sponsor ---------------------
For a secure high performance FTP using SSL/TLS encryption
upgrade to SurgeFTP
---- See http://netwinsite.com/sponsor/sponsor_surgeftp.htm ----
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Not for wussie boaters... [email protected] General 4 February 15th 06 01:01 PM
Last remaining White Star Line vessel to be sold for scrap Katzowtadbag Tall Ships 0 December 30th 05 01:36 AM
WW III is Here Skipper General 29 November 10th 05 07:27 AM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 04:43 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2025 BoatBanter.com.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about Boats"

 

Copyright © 2017