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Yes. If you are developing film and you forget to close the door to your darkroom in the basement and at a critical moment in the development process someone turns on the basement light and several seconds elapse before you realize you didn't shut the darkroom door, your pictures may well have been ruined due to light pollution.
Sure. I was an amateur astronomer at one time. Just one little example, this for naked-eye viewing-
A few years ago, the Leonids were forecast to be especially showy for my area. I had to drive for over an hour to get to a place to see them, and even that was far from optimal.
Oh, and I remember the folks at one of the Kitt Peak observatories telling us ( a tour) about how Phoenix was switching over to yellow sodium vapor lamps.
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Yes. If you are developing film and you forget to close the door to your darkroom in the basement and at a critical moment in the development process someone turns on the basement light and several seconds elapse before you realize you didn't shut the darkroom door, your pictures may well have been ruined due to light pollution.
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Sure. I was an amateur astronomer at one time. Just one little example, this for naked-eye viewing-
A few years ago, the Leonids were forecast to be especially showy for my area. I had to drive for over an hour to get to a place to see them, and even that was far from optimal.
Oh, and I remember the folks at one of the Kitt Peak observatories telling us ( a tour) about how Phoenix was switching over to yellow sodium vapor lamps.
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