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Stonehenge and its Environs

Should Stonehenge be floodlit?

Sanctuary S
Sanctuary Nov 30, 2011 08:30:53
Replying to tjj

tjj wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
tjj wrote:
head-first wrote:
...Because moonlight simply isn't good enough...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15934993

Oh no! Please not. I haven't yet experienced the stars 'drawing down' at Stonehenge but hope to one day.
Years ago a mate and I on permision from EH spent what was meant to be a moonlight night there on a photographic mission. Needless to say it was so cloudy we saw nothing so compromised with the use of lanterns.
I've only really experienced the stars in their full splendour once in my life ... a moonless, frosty night near Silbury several years ago. I wasn't high on anything at all but it like seeing for the first time for a blind person. Totally awe inspiring. I understand this happens in other ancient places too and Stonehenge is one of them.
When I was in Morroco June we camped against the walls of a redundent Foreign Legion fort one night and the sky looked like you were looking at it through a zoom lense. The moon appeared huge and the stars as big as tennis balls. All to do with the clean atmosphere no doubt but breathtaking.

T tjj
tjj Nov 30, 2011 09:36:08
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
When I was in Morroco June we camped against the walls of a redundent Foreign Legion fort one night and the sky looked like you were looking at it through a zoom lense. The moon appeared huge and the stars as big as tennis balls. All to do with the clean atmosphere no doubt but breathtaking.
Saying it was like looking through a zoom lens is exactly what I experienced and I'm sure your right about the clean atmosphere. Links in with the recent discussion about carbon emissions and climate change. Global warming aside, we can't escape the fact that most town and city dwellers live under a polluted atmosphere and never see the stars as they must have been experienced before the industrial revolution.

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