Back at the Griffith Observatory after a decade

The light pollution from LA is way worse now, I could barely make out Orion's belt with my own eyes. But the photo I took with my phone through their telescope still showed the nebula pretty clearly. Anyone else notice their old stargazing spots getting washed out?

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parker2242mo ago

It's like we're slowly cutting ourselves off from the actual world and replacing it with a digital version. Checking a parking lot for a good spot to see the stars now means checking your phone's light pollution map instead of just looking up.

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simon_lopez354mo ago

Remember when you could see the Milky Way from a dark spot? I tried showing my nephew some stars from my old backyard spot last month. He asked if the "fuzzy cloud" was just my neighbor's bad wifi signal. I had to pull up a sky map on my phone to prove stars were actually up there.

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kim_smith4mo ago

Actually, you can still see the Milky Way from a truly dark spot, but those spots are getting harder to find.

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