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Have you tried leaving a door ajar for more than 10 minutes? My Mazda pickup
is electrically similar to Ford, and if I leave a door open for a while during
the daylight, and leave it open, the interior lights eventually shut off. I
can then go in and out of the truck or sleep on a mattress in the bed and go in
and out without any interior lights as long as I leave a door open.
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For my laptop, I made an astronomy profile for the Desktop that has the
brightness at minimum, disables the screen after two minutes of no activity
that recovers by tapping the mouse or a key, changed the background to plain
black and changed all the display colors and fonts to either deep magenta or
black. Then I used two layers of rubylith as a cover, and the screen is
invisible unless I'm sitting at it. Screen blanking and low brightness also
changed the power draw enough that the original 3 hour battery life jumped up
to 9 hours.
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Jim O'Connor
South Rim Coordinator
Grand Canyon Star Party
gcsp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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In a message dated 9/9/2018 11:48:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mikemac@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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My last worry about attending AASP next month is light pollution. Not the kind
in the sky but the kind that comes off my laptopâs screen. Or worse yet, the
dome lights on my car.
I guess for the laptop I could throw a beach towel or something over it to keep
the stray light to a minimum. People might think Iâm being antisocial though
sitting there with a towel over my head.
The dome lights on the car (Ford Explorer) are a bigger problem. Looking in the
manual, I donât see any way to turn them off. Theyâll come on each and
every time I open the door. And since Iâll be sleeping in the back, Iâll
have to be able to get in and out. A beach towel wonât work in this case.
Should I make sure thereâs a big RV parked between me and the viewing field?
So what do people do to control the stray white light that everything seems to
emit?
Mike McDonald
mikemac@xxxxxxxxxxx
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