According to much of the Interwebz, the residents of Los Angeles were so shocked to see the Milky Way during a 1994 blackout, that many of them called 911. The real story is a bit less dramatic--people called observatories, NOT 911, to ask about the 'strange sky' they had seen--but the sad fact remains that LA and many other cities suffer from light pollution so intense that you can't see more than a few stars in the night sky, let alone the Milky Way. This fact inspired landscape and astrophoto...
Video: Watch the Milky Way 'appear' as you get farther and farther from LA light pollution
DP Review - 12 Oct 2017 18:42
According to much of the Interwebz, the residents of Los Angeles were so shocked to see the Milky Way during a 1994 blackout, that many of them called 911. The real story is a bit less dramatic--people called observatories, NOT 911, to ask about the 'strange sky' they had seen--but the sad fact remains that LA and many other cities suffer from light pollution so intense that you can't see more than a few stars in the night sky, let alone the Milky Way. This fact inspired landscape and astrophoto...
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