Blue Marble Navigator Dark Skies Map

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After selecting your initial location from a world map the main interface comes up. Sortable dark site listing add a new dark site how to see the milky way how to see the aurora color scale meaning more astronomy links. Our work international dark sky places fixture seal of approval parks and protected areas sea turtle conservation education and outreach. Here are some useful links.

The shown section is 720 600 by default but can be resized using the and buttons at the top. The original blue marble was a composite of four months of modis observations with a spatial resolution level of detail of 1 square kilometer per pixel. This map is based on light pollution data updated in 2006 by david lorenz. And don t forget to c heck out the globe at night interactive light pollution map data created with eight years of data collected by citizen scientists.

More info on the features of this site. I m still working out some of the bugs but i ll continue trying to find ways to improve the site. Welcome to the improved darksitefinder light pollution map. The map is easier to share since the url changes as you move around.

Here you can browse their maximum resolution of four pixels per km as well as a slightly coarser night lights map enhanced by town names and national borders. Thank you to everyone who continued to visit despite the errors and thank you also to those who have submitted their favorite dark sites. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy.

Clicking near the edge of the picture moves the focus into the respective direction clicking on its center zooms in and back out thus switching between 4 and 0 5 gigapixel. Display of a section of the 86400 43200 blue marble pictures that nasa derived from imagery taken in 2004. Blue marble was initially created by nasa s goddard space flight center the night lights by noaa s national geophysical data center.