{"id":799862,"date":"2025-12-22T07:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799862"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:54:28","slug":"this-citys-best-winter-show-is-in-its-pitch-dark-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799862","title":{"rendered":"This City\u2019s Best Winter Show Is in Its Pitch-Dark Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>Flagstaff mandates that shielding be placed on outdoor lighting so that it doesn\u2019t project skyward. There are also limits on the lumens of light allowed per acre of land.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a starry sky visible even from the heart of the city. Flagstaff\u2019s Buffalo Park, just a couple miles from downtown, measures about a 4 on the Bortle scale, which quantifies the level of light pollution. (The scale goes from 1, the darkest skies possible, to 9, similar to the light-polluted night sky of, say, New York City. To see the Milky Way, the sky must be below a 5.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2025\/12\/21\/science\/space\/arizona-dark-sky-astronomy?rand=772170\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagstaff mandates that shielding be placed on outdoor lighting so that it doesn\u2019t project skyward. There are also limits on the lumens of light allowed per acre of land. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-times-space-cosmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/799863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}