Image: Light pollution country versus city

Description: Comparison showing the effects of light pollution on viewing the sky at night. The southern sky, featuring Sagittarius and Scorpius. Top - Leamington, UT, pop. 217 Bottom - Orem, UT, in a metropolitan area of ~400,000 I've attempted to match sky brightness to how it appeared to my eyes.
Title: Light pollution country versus city
Credit: originally posted to Flickr as Southern sky, country vs. city
Author: Jeremy Stanley
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