[sac-forum] New observing sites?

Curious about locating new dark sky sites? Here's a way to combine a couple of 
tools to assist you in that quest for the closest dark site. This can be 
accomplished by overlaying the Clear Sky Clock light pollution maps onto the 
Google Earth map for any particular location. One CSC map will overlay a pretty 
wide geographic area. 

If you haven't done so yet, first download  and install Google Earth. Then 
choose the Clear Sky Clock of your choice. Click on the 'Light Pollution map' 
(in Nifty Links, just below the clock). Just above the light pollution map 
you'll see small text that reads: 'get this map as a Google Earth image 
overlay'. Click it and the image will be overlayed on top of the corresponding 
area in Google Earth. It will show up in the sidebar under Temporary Places. 
Right click on that and select Save into My Places which to save it for future 
sessions. 

Cool, huh?

Peter

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