>yeah, that is a problem...I have quite a few lights around my place, but I can go just a few miles north to pretty much darkness. oc, the views of the sky from sea were incredible, but from a moving boat, pretty hard to see detail.
Did you ever manage to see the zodiacal light? (Not sure how it is called in English). Actually, it isn't hard to see, but it can easily be confused with the normal atmospheric reflection of the sun's light.
The zodiacal light looks like a pyramid, which can be inclined to one side, depending on the position of the Ecliptic.
I saw it clearly when I lived in rural areas, but now I can't see it, due to the closeness of the Big City.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
