Red Skies at Night

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2003-02-17 10:06pm

Anyone else feel sad when they look up at the sky in a city and see that when its cloudy, it glows a soft, diluted crimson red? (Its 8:06 PM here)

Ontop of that, when I'm on the other side of the mountian, the mountain ridge where the city is on the other side glows purple during nights. Does anyone else dislike the city lights at night. (Especially when they ruin nice starscape in rural areas.)

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-02-17 10:10pm

Absolutely. That's why I live in a small town. I grew up in a "city" (to most of you guys, this city is a hick town). I much prefer the fresh air.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-17 10:13pm

I live outside city limits, too. But I think it's rather beautiful when the sky is red and purple when the sun sets and afterwards.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-02-17 10:13pm

I live in a heavily urbanized area, so only the brightest stars are visible.

Just as an interesting side note, most of the street lights in the Santa Clara Valley ( 15 miles south of me ) are made in a way as too create less interference with the James Lick Observatory.

http://www.ucolick.org/

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-02-17 10:14pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I live outside city limits, too. But I think it's rather beautiful when the sky is red and purple when the sun sets and afterwards.

In the clear sky, yes, but the fake colors a big city makes is horrible.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-17 10:17pm

Ah, yes, of course. Those are indeed bland.

I don't think I've been in a city big enough to really see something that depressing, though. Most of it is very pretty here.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-02-17 10:17pm

Sad? Pfffft! Hardly! Why feel sad when you can just marvel at the beauty of it all? Rather I feel refreshed after such an experience.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-17 10:18pm

I think they mean the polluting clouds that choke the skies, not the natural colours out in the country,

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-02-17 10:21pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I think they mean the polluting clouds that choke the skies, not the natural colours out in the country,

*after carefully rereading* Oh I see...well out in the country the above would be my reaction...

In the city, well I'm never really notice sush things. Check it out tomarrow though, as its 10:20 here now.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-17 10:29pm

I live in Ft Lauderdale and we get shitty skies. One night a year or so ago I went outside and could see all Orion in vivid clarity. I nearly pissed myself it was so out of the ordinary. If you go outside at midnight youre lucky if you can see 20 stars.

And to make it worse, we usually have shitty clouds. They always block the sky so its fucking impossible to see anything. And theyre not the nice poofy cumulus clouds either, theyre the ugly nasty blanketting thick but whispy kind.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-02-17 10:31pm

As a resident of Los Angeles, I can say that it's rather annoying to know that all the red sunsets are caused by our constant smog problem. The only time I know that the air is clean is after a long period of high winds, when all the smog gets blown out of the basin.

Otherwise, I can't even see the high-rises in downtown Los Angeles from my area.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-17 10:43pm

Crazy, you must not be much worried about lung cancer huh?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-02-17 10:54pm

I don't live downtown, but I also don't want to live here much longer. Santa Barbara sounds like a better choice, since I'm angling for a computer/engineering major.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-17 10:56pm

Sad that you can't even see the Hollywood sign from most areas in LA.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-02-17 11:08pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Sad that you can't even see the Hollywood sign from most areas in LA.

Hell, sometimes you're lucky to see the hills from downtown L.A.!

And I'm not exaggerating. At least the pollution is better than it was back in the '30s... when it was mostly white smoke and the population was gagging. (That is, if I got my facts straight...)