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Simon Brooke
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Geoff Pearson wrote:
>
> "Simon Brooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Geoff Pearson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "TheMgt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>>> Geoff Pearson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't want a light every 25 metres on a path which runs through
>>>>> fields
>>>>> where I can still see the stars.
>>>>
>>>> I'm amazed you can see more than a handful of the brightest stars
>>>> anywhere near Edinburgh.
>>>
>>> You need to be out and away from street lights more than 20 minutes - by
>>> the time you get to Haddington the sky is full!
>>
>> You can see a starry sky from the west coast of the Outer Hebrides if
>> you're
>> lucky. You'll see fewer than 10% of the visible stars from anywhere in
>> the central belt.
>
> I've see the starscape from Unst. East Lothian is a not as good as that
> but
> it is all I have most of the time. I don't want less of it.
Fairy Nuff
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Age equals angst multiplied by the speed of fright squared.
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>
> "Simon Brooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Geoff Pearson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "TheMgt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:%[email protected]...
>>>> Geoff Pearson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't want a light every 25 metres on a path which runs through
>>>>> fields
>>>>> where I can still see the stars.
>>>>
>>>> I'm amazed you can see more than a handful of the brightest stars
>>>> anywhere near Edinburgh.
>>>
>>> You need to be out and away from street lights more than 20 minutes - by
>>> the time you get to Haddington the sky is full!
>>
>> You can see a starry sky from the west coast of the Outer Hebrides if
>> you're
>> lucky. You'll see fewer than 10% of the visible stars from anywhere in
>> the central belt.
>
> I've see the starscape from Unst. East Lothian is a not as good as that
> but
> it is all I have most of the time. I don't want less of it.
Fairy Nuff
--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
Age equals angst multiplied by the speed of fright squared.
;; the Worlock