In this way humankind loses the perception of the universe as living for eternity in a luminous fog. Original maps can be downloaded clicking inside the image. The line in the left panel shows the coast. The propagation of light pollution is evident. This depends not only on the artificial sky brightness but also on altitudes, atmospheric extinction of the stellar light, natural sky brightness and eye characteristics.
Colours are the same that the previous maps.
Veneto Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice Cinzano P., 2000a, in Cinzano P., ed., Measuring and Modelling Light Pollution, Mem. Measuring and Modelling Light Pollution, Mem. Measuring and Modelling Light Pollution, Mem. 71, 251-256 Cinzano P., Falchi F., Elvidge C.D., Baugh K.E., 2000a, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astron. Preserving the Astronomical Windows, Proc.