"Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote in message
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> > thats neat city lighting. does earth really look lit up like that on the
> > dark side?
>
> Yes.  I'm pretty sure he used this picture for an image map:
>
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020810.html

Yeah but he's exagerated the brightness, because city lights are much darker
than the sun, so a real camera wouldn't be able to get both things in shot as
clearly as that.

Still it looks fantastic!

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