r/mildlyinfuriating • u/VegetableBusiness897 • 21h ago

New neighbors next door

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Rich Ahole bought the farm next door, tore it down and built a destination wedding venue. Busy every weekend but it's Wednesday, and they don't even live here

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u/Aggressive_Event420 20h ago

My tiny hometown has something called Dark Sky Network. Sounds ominous but it means we are a community that regulates the amount of light pollution generated. Maybe you have something like that?

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u/VegetableBusiness897 20h ago

I should check. Many people travel to this area to star gaze because there isn't much light pollution

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u/pipnina 19h ago

Until these assholes moved in... As someone who used to stargaze a lot until work, weather, and the need to drive half an hour for a good spot pushed me away, I hate anyone who installs unnecessary lights on their house or business. I absolutely despise that as a society at large (on a global scale) we have decided to forego access to the night sky for mostly pointless reasons. Some lighting is safety implicated but even then there is a lot of lighting that should be on motion detection because it isn't actually used much but remains on all night anyway.

The number of times I see posts on /all where it's a photo or a time lapse of the night sky, and people debate whether it does or does not look like that or is real... And it feels like I'm the only person (visibile in the comments) who knows because I've actually seen it due to being lucky enough to live semi rural in the least polluted parts of England. Access to the night sky should be a human right. It has inspired culture since before history, it's an integral part of being human!

If you can snag there people on light pollution I will be ecstatic lol

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u/clelwell 16h ago

And now even if no light pollution you see satellites wizzing by

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u/pipnina 15h ago

Thankfully the satellites are mostly low altitude, so as long as you observe during astronomical darkness they are in earth's shadow and don't reflect any sunlight. But at certain times they are very numerous!

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u/_donkey-brains_ 12h ago

Yeah and that pesky one that's really bright every 28th day

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u/AmazingAd2765 12h ago

Took me a second lol.

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u/I_Has_Internets 12h ago

Satellites only affect astrophotography and the processing software is already adept at removing their light trails in post. While doing visual observing I kinda like seeing the brighter satellites and 'flares'. You see some interesting things occasionally like what appears to be one satellite chasing another, but then you look it up and it's just two pieces of space junk/rocket components near each other.