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Baja dark skies? The furthest you can get from a light bulb?
Towards the end of the month there will be many opportunities to take star photos. Where is the darkest places in Baja?
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Quote: Originally posted by verichip  | | Towards the end of the month there will be many opportunities to take star photos. Where is the darkest places in Baja? |
Lots of dark sky. The coastal area can be hazy. More reliable clear skies in the central area. Catavina. The SPM plateau. The Sierra San
fransisco.
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The air needs to be both dry and sill. The sky needs to be dark. Didn’t people do amateur astronomy at Mike’s Sky Ranch?
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anywhere between El Rosario and Bahia de los Angeles is dark without much light pollution
the below image is not the greatest - but it gives you a good idea about light pollution in Baja
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The skies in our little village are amazing since we never have fog. My Mom says the first time she saw the La Bocana, BCS night sky, she felt as if
she could touch the stars and actually stepped back.
Now that we are here in Alanya, turkiye, that is something I really miss. Cannnot see any stars.
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and here we are on the earliest sunset of the year, two weeks before the solstice!
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But look at the full moon we will have!
[Edited on 12-8-2022 by AKgringo]
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Look at a moon rise chart for the end of the month. There will be many opportunities to photograph the stars .
"Moonrise, Moonset, and Moon Phase in Ensenada" https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/mexico/ensenada
[Edited on 12-8-2022 by verichip]
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https://news.yahoo.com/full-moon-eclipses-mars-tonight-18460...
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Mars the God of war is approaching it's closet point to earth.
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Cool map 4x4, thanks for posting it.
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The Vizcaino desert, as long as you’re away from ambient light sources, ie Bahía Tortugas - Bahía Asunción.
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
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I was in the Sierra Juarez a while ago and was surprised that the stars there were not very bright at all. I guess there is some light pollution /
haze there that drifts down from the Tijuana / Southern California megalopolis. Oddly, out at the end of the Punta Banda Penninsula the stars can be
very bright, about the same distance south. Have also seen some amazing star brilliance about 30 miles south of Puertecitos on the Sea of Cortez.
[Edited on 12-8-2022 by bajaric]
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We have a place just 30KM north of Puertecitos. This time of year the air is dry and cool it makes for excellent viewing. 30 years ago it was much
darker. Solar led lights and San Felipe’s growth have changed that.
That said, last night we saw the Space Station (US) pass overhead NNW to SE at 6:30 local and it was beautiful.
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| Quote: Originally posted by boe4fun | | The Vizcaino desert, as long as you’re away from ambient light sources, ie Bahía Tortugas - Bahía Asunción. |
Last year I spent a night in the hills north of Vizcaino, and southeast of El Arco. The pea-soup fog that formed made it pretty tough to see
anything more than a stone's throw from my camp!
The same thing happened a few years ago when I spent a night in the hills east of San Ignacio.
[Edited on 12-10-2022 by AKgringo]
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Anybody know how to post this map up for all to see?
"Light Pollution Map - DarkSiteFinder.com" https://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#8/29.748/-114.440
[Edited on 12-11-2022 by verichip]
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The link worked fine. No need for a pic.
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Thank for sharing that map!
If you want to show what it looks like, so folks who don't click on unknown links can see, do a: Print Screen > Paint > Paste > Save >
Crop and get this (hosted on Postimages.org because it was greater than the Nomad 342kb limit):
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K |
Thank for sharing that map!
If you want to show what it looks like, so folks who don't click on unknown links can see, do a: Print Screen > Paint > Paste > Save >
Crop and get this (hosted on Postimages.org because it was greater than the Nomad 342kb limit):
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thanks. Looks like Baja has the most dark skies. Anybody know if the lights from Sinaloa affect the
skies near the Sea of Cortez
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We camp a bit south of San Felipe and the glow from Puerto Peñasco, across the gulf, is low on the horrizon. Does not deminish star and satellite
viewing on moonless nights!
It is incredibly dark on those nights in the Baja desert and mountains.
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