Large Cities In Totality For 2027 Total Solar Eclipse
Here is a list of some of the largest cities in the path of totality for the 2027 total solar eclipse. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of every city in the…
Here is a list of some of the largest cities in the path of totality for the 2027 total solar eclipse. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of every city in the…
In prior articles, we have taken a look at the great work that the Oregon Dark Sky chapter has undertaken to measure and track light pollution in the various locations of Oregon. This has yielded…
Not everything is funny or cute. If these headlines were released on April Fools Day, people would probably be more likely to dismiss them as fake. Some of these titles would cause serious problems regardless…
As we previously did articles on the 2024 solar eclipse for the several state parks, and figure that there is an amazing opportunity for mapping those state parks to their Bortle Scale values. With the…
As every lunar eclipse is different, each lunar eclipse will vary in size and darkness. For example, the smallest total lunar eclipse occurred on April 4th, 2015, with an umbra Magnitude of 1.0008. The April…
Although not as common a filming location as Hollywood, there have been several famous and iconic movies and scenes filmed in the Pacific Northwest. Let’s take a look of some of these famous movies and…
What happens when a supermoon and lunar eclipse collide? How rare is it and is there anything special? Come find out! As discussed in another article, a supermoon “is a full moon or a new moon that nearly…
There are 14 US states with State Parks that are Bortle 1 scale, which is the darkest that the skies could be. Of these 14 states, 2 states have at least 5 Bortle 1 sites…
Every few months, the IDA Oregon Chapter puts out their most recent report about how the previous few months have progressed from a light pollution perspective regarding Oregon dark skies. We previously covered the 7th…
In Saudi Arabia, there are 15 national parks that would be in the path of totality for the 2027 total solar eclipse in some fashion. Not every park will be in the path of totality,…