>>664512>That seems like it has to be a glitch.>I'm confused as to why northern Italy and a lot of Germany looks worse than the NE United States. Is it really that bad?Yes.
A late bump to the thread but here is a NASA photo of Europe at night. Italy in particular produces a ridiculous amount of light pollution.
There was a study on light pollution in Italy and it is so bad that the average Italian has measurably worse night vision than their European neighbors.
>On more than three quarters of the Italian population "night" never really comes because the zenith sky brightness is larger than the typical zenith brightness at nautical twilight due to the excessive amount of artificial light.>Seven Italians on ten effectively live in perennial moonlight because the night sky in standard clean atmospheric conditions in the place where they live is brighter than has been measured in the nights close to full moon in the best astronomical sites. They rarely realize it because they still experience the sky to be brighter under a full moon than under new moon conditions. 