Tag: satellite data

• Darkest skies: where you can still see the Milky Way

  

  I modelled the glow of the world’s lights from satellite images and checked it against 6,653 sky meter readings. By my count 52% of people, and 85% in the UK, cannot see the Milky Way from home.

  Tristan Hotham

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  astronomy, data visualisation, light pollution, maps, Milky Way, night sky, satellite data, VIIRS