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Originally Posted by vision33r
Useless, majority of the light pollution is caused by uncovered Street lamps. All it needs is a dome cover to project the light downwards instead of up and use non-reflective street asphalt.
When Storm Sandy hits and knocked out of power in the city for a brief period. The next night I couldn't see any lights from NYC and it was darker than normal. But, I still could not see a very brightly star lit sky.
There were some planets and stars that were brighter than I've ever seen in the NYC night sky but not dark enough.
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One must consider all the light pollution contributions of NJ, Connecticut, Long Island. Indeed, with Sandy, not even the Upper East Side remained fully lit. I believe less than 10% of the NYC population lost power as of next morning and Manhattan power was out only South of 23rd St. So that's still a lot of light pollution.
When the Eastern seaboard went dark with the grid failure, the evening sky was gorgeous, at least til they got power back at 10PM.