Sky at Night Magazine

Good news here in the inky black darkness of wild west France !
The local coucil is to sign "La Charte de protection du Ciel Nocturne" which means all the local areas have to follow suit.
Lights out earlier & no uplighting etc.

It's gonna be dark 'round here, REAL dark coz it's pretty dark here deja !

le Keef

hi, im adding my 2 sense on light pollution, in northern Canada, we do have awesome skies for astronomy. a 4 inch refractor equals a 10 inch dob from the city, but you can see all the m-objects with binos 50mm. but for the future reference, i will let my astro photos speak for themselves, if it ever stops raining.lol
Does anyone have a test that i could tackle to test if my sky is ...

Hi all,

took some 30 sec exposures last night and was amazed by how orange everything was. Is this from the lights in the park behind our house?

Gavin

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Universal Studios have opened a new ride which involves a high intensity beam constantly directed at the night sky. The full story is at the bottom of this page:

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=14&month=06&year=2010

Hi
I am outside observing and its going great and then all of a sudden the garden light turns on right in front of the telescope so I had to go get a
towel from inside and put the towel over the lightbut it was a windy night so It kept blowing of I had nothing to stick down with so I packed up not light pollution BUt it made me think how much light ...

This is what I call Light Pollution...

I took this as we were sailing out of New York on our way to NZ on Jan 13th 2008 at around 2030hrs.

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It looks beautiful but I wouldn't want to try and do any astronomy from there.
It was so bright that I managed to hand-hold and take this (and several more) at night, as it started to rain, from the deck of a moving ship. ...

Campiagn for Dark Skies who's with me???

Where I used to live my garden faced due south across a playing field then a railway line with industrial units beyond that.
No problems until one of the firms installed security lighting which beamed right at me.
I went round to see the manager and explained what problems it caused for me.
I gave him a picture of Orion taken fro my back yard and he agreed to reposition the lighting which helped a ...

Hi ya I live where there is very little light pollution and always think about all the other astronmers that have limted times
the can look at the stars due to light pollution in there area




sad

crazy about stars

I would just like to tell you of my experience when I stayed at Lamplugh in the Lake District. I couldn't believe the ammount of stars I could see from there.
I decided to buy a pair of Celestron 15x70 binoculars form Argos while I was there and I saw more that week with those binoculars than I ever could back home in West Yorkshire with my 10" Dobsonian.
I could actually see the satellite ...