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The sky I saw meteor shower for first time.

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The sky I saw meteor shower for first time.

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August 12, 2018, In Chicago. My friends and I lied down on the roof, AWAY from the downtown, of course. Waiting for several hours, in a cozy and cool summer. Totally worth it.

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The summer triangle at English Bay - Debbie

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The summer triangle at English Bay - Debbie

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I could barely do star gazing in Hong Kong. But here in Vancouver, this is much easier. With an app called "Stellarium Mobile - Star Map", anyone can be an expert. I also had a chance to catch Jupiter and Mars at the same night sky yesterday! :DD It was my first time to see Mars. It's red!

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These photos are shots of a video I took in June, from the sky of Montreal during take off. As you see the light pollution is more dense in some areas of the city and it has reflected to the sky as well and make it difficult to distinguish celestial bodies. I circled the moon and if you enlarge the photo you can see the details more clearly.

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Night Sky at Wreck Beach, Vancouver. September 4th - James

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Night Sky at Wreck Beach, Vancouver. September 4th - James

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During my first week at UBC, I was able to capture this beautiful photo during the sunset. Look at all of the different shades of colour! Think of how the city lights downtown would alter this view.

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Here’s a picture of Manhattan I took during my visit this summer. It’s beautiful to see all these bright lights but unfortunately very little chances of seeing any stars! ✨

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I took this night sky picture with light in Beijing Olympic Park in last winter. It’s beautiful and shiny but had light pollution. Looking on the bright side, the sky is less blurry and smoggy than several years ago in Beijing. I wish our stars in the sky would be as shiny as light in the future.

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Hey, it's me again~ This is a photo I captured tonight after my class, while I was walking near Ponderosa Commons on UBC Campus.

This is quite an interesting and somewhat paradoxical(?) view of the night. When I looked up at the sky, I saw a few stars vaguely twinkling, but sadly and obviously, what I noticed more were the two lines of strong glare crossing each other... which were caused by the street lamps on pedestrian walk. In reality, the stars were even more vague and harder to see with human eyes.

Well yes, we may need artificial light to guide the way, but we also need the twinkle star to brighten our heart!

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Hi, It's Kurtee again! I'm sure you know where this place was. But have you ever seen such a bright and colourful night sky at UBC campus? Can you guess where the bright colours in the sky were coming from? Was it astrophotography or light pollution?

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This is a photo I took of the night sky in Punta del Este, Uruguay this past summer (it was winter there). It was around 8pm in the evening. Punta del Este is a smaller beach town in Uruguay and is very quiet in the winter months, the streets do not have many street lights and light pollution was minimal. It was pitch black and my flash on my phone was turned on to capture a few stars. Without the flash there was even more stars. As always the camera doesn't do what my eyes see justice when it comes to the night time starry sky.

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I snapped this half moon tonight, Nov. 1, at 7:30 pm outside my house in Kitsilano. It's magical. Just one of those moments where I just feel like grabbing the moon and putting it into my pocket. I love taking photos of the moon using my Android phone.  -

Wilson

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I took this picture when I went to Malaysia this Summer. I was on the roof garden of a residential building, trying to take a night sky view of Malaysia. It was 9:30 pm, and the city lights were still on. The bright light of Twin tower, KL tower, Pavilion shopping mall, and TRX are shining to the sky. I checked on the internet, and it said the light wil be turned off at midnight. Although this is a typical city skyline, this raises my attention to light pollution. It is hard to see the stars in the bright night sky, and the light pollution is severe.

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"astrophotography" :)  This is the ghostly moon on Halloween night above my garage about 7pm. woooooo   woooooo !! Spirits are out tonight roaming the land... but Mother Moon watches the youngsters even as they gorge themselves on candy and get sick! :)
This past summer has been a wonder for star gazing in my backyard even with the smoke of wildfires& light pollution every night. But more and more neighbours in spanking new (not used, nothing thrifty here...) luxury houses are installing high voltage house lamps and surveillance cameras. They must fear the night and sky and the dark and moon and stars! As a result, all that provokes wonderment is fading fading fading... Sad but true for city dwellers who have known nothing but concrete and glass - and the forest, my home, is an evil, dark place.. Hansel and Gretel and the witch return on this night

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Above: the photo that came out from my camera automatically; Below: an image that is closer to what I saw

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Halloween night sky from campus - Thomas

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Halloween night sky from campus - Thomas

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The photo on the top was taken on SW Marine Dr after my class tonight. But my eyes actually saw a very different picture that what the camera captured. So, I decided to make some adjustment to make it closer to what my eyes really saw.

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Street view captured on an overpass in Beijing (2018)

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This is a photo I took when I went back to Beijing for vacation last time, in 2018.

This is a pretty classic city view at night in my hometown, where there's busy traffic on both directions, and giant street lights are lined up on the side.

The picture presents a bustling view of the city night, but the different forms of light pollution are also appearing obvious. While we may be used to the headlights of cars and consider them an assurance for safety (which is somewhat true), the glare is actually a common component of light pollution. Such excessive brightness can cause visual discomfort, which may act in a counterproductive way and increase the risk of car accidents. The glare from car lights and street lights may also impair drivers' vision in the long term. More importantly, they block the real view of the dark sky.

This shot is just a miniature of many cosmopolitan cities around the world. The city lights may be too usual in our lives to be noticed, but in fact, the light pollution does require awareness and attention.

How long have we not been able to see the stars hidden behind the glare... Maybe it's time to inspire some changes and bring back the "City of Stars"~

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This photo was taken a few years back in Australia during a family trip. It was midnight with all outdoor lights off. It may be a typical night there but for Hongkongers, it's spectacular! As mentioned by Hannah, we could hardly find a place in HK without any street lights.

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I took this photo prior to moving to Vancouver. This is a regular night sky in my hometown, but with many new houses being built in the area, it is getting harder to see this type of view.

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Hannah's Polaris at UBC Rose Garden in May 2022

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Hannah's Polaris at UBC Rose Garden in May 2022

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Hey I found Polaris! "The sauce pan" circles around Polaris due to Earth's rotation. So when I took this photo at around 11 pm, the sauce pan moved above Polaris.

When I took this photo, I couldn't see many stars with my eyes. But thanks to technology, my phone captured a lot of them. This is the first time I photographed that many stars (It's impossible in my city). The UBC Rose Garden still has some street and outdoor light. I wonder what the sky would look like if all lights were turned off. 🤔

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Look at the skyglow in the middle, it lights up the sky even at night (There were times I couldn't fall asleep because of the light outside)😐. In my city, sometimes you can only see a few stars and planets with unaided eyes at night. And sometimes you will see nothing even with a clear night sky.

I took this photo with 3-4 mins exposure time, so I was able to capture a few more stars. In the upper middle of the picture, the three stars in a straight line is called Orion's Belt.