Kathryn Yelinek

But there are no sea turtles in Pennsylvania. So, why should we care about light pollution?

All my life I’ve been an early bird. I want to be tucked in bed with the lights out by 10pm… not the best trait for someone who enjoys stargazing. Few things will keep me up past my bedtime. Two of them are comets and the northern lights.

The Bortle Dark-Sky Scale ranks the darkness of the night sky on a scale from 1 to 9.