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Dark skies over Brooklyn
Natural History, Dec, 2002 by Stanley B. Dickes
Like Neil deGrasse Tyson, I was born in New York City, but somewhat earlier--1918 to be exact. And I can attest firsthand that the light pollution he deplores in his "Universe" column ["Let There Be Dark," October 2002] is a fairly recent phenomenon. I remember distinctly that the Milky Way was easily observed until I was well into my teens.
Brooklyn had few electric streetlights before the late 1920s. And in September 1941 there was an amazing display of the northern lights: green flashes filling the sky for hours.
Stanley B. Dickes Sun City West, Arizona
COPYRIGHT 2002 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
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