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Old 05-23-2013, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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The dense lights are the backed up traffic on I-35, 290, and MoPac even in the middle of the night .
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Old 05-23-2013, 10:04 AM
 
Location: Rural Central Texas
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I am wondering about that really bright light point on 281N in the vicinity of Blanco or Johnson City. I wonder if this was captured during the christmas season and that is the Perdenales Coop light display. It seems to be pointed straight up based on the halo effect.
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Old 05-23-2013, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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It almost looks like an artifact of the picture - the coloring is off and the 'halo' effect looks like something that might occur on a lens. It could actually be an aircraft (which are actually 25% of so closer to the space station than the ground) or it could be lightning or similar.
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Old 05-23-2013, 02:56 PM
 
Location: San Antonio. Tx 78209
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San Antonio, and all of Bexar County have a strong Dark Sky ordinance that could account for the difference in light. Austin's ordinance grandfather's lights until 2015.
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Old 05-23-2013, 07:36 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Here's a better pic of Central, South, & Southeast Texas - it also shows the wide swath of activity in the Eagle Ford Shale boom of South Texas (flaring off lots of natural gas from the new wells):

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Old 05-24-2013, 11:35 AM
 
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Nice pic, you can tell how much larger Houston metro is compared to SA and Austin. The density between SA and Austin in lights look about the same.
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Old 05-24-2013, 02:15 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Here's a better pic of Central, South, & Southeast Texas - it also shows the wide swath of activity in the Eagle Ford Shale boom of South Texas (flaring off lots of natural gas from the new wells):
Awesome photo!

I'm really surprised at how much development there is down around Brownsville. That looks pretty big. Secondly, all those lights coming from the Eagleford are beautiful. We're edging closer to American energy independence all the time. Throw in some conservation and we can truly get there.
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Old 05-25-2013, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Here's a better pic of Central, South, & Southeast Texas - it also shows the wide swath of activity in the Eagle Ford Shale boom of South Texas (flaring off lots of natural gas from the new wells):
Why aren't they trapping that natural gas instead of burning it off? I understand burning it off in North Dakota, pipelines are thousands of miles away, but there are many pipelines very close to Eagle Ford. It's like burning money really.
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Old 05-25-2013, 05:15 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Why aren't they trapping that natural gas instead of burning it off? I understand burning it off in North Dakota, pipelines are thousands of miles away, but there are many pipelines very close to Eagle Ford. It's like burning money really.
Dunno, maybe it's because the activity has expanded there so quickly that the infrastructure hasn't caught up with it yet.

Or maybe because the price of natural gas was so low they just flare it instead of collect it?

I really don't know.

My lease is in the middle of the Bakken (McKenzie County, North Dakota), so I haven't paid that much attention to the booms in South or West Texas.
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Old 05-26-2013, 03:54 PM
 
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San Antonio is a sleeping giant
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