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Can You See The Stars?

Light pollution is increasing, which means it is becoming ever more difficult to see stars in the night sky. The Globe At Night organisation is asking people around the world to take part in a survey of light pollution levels during the period from 25 Febuary to 8 March 2008. It’s quite easy to do, and I’ll be hoping for some cloudless nights to add my observations into the total.
 
(hat tip to Phil Plait for the link)

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2 responses to “Can You See The Stars?”

  1. robert Avatar
    robert

    Thanks for the pointer – an adding an incentive for me to moan to the council about the search lights they’ve just installed on a (closed at night) car park at the end of the street

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  2. Gelert Avatar
    Gelert

    Light pollution here is so bad its impossible to see the sky when it’s less than ‘brown’. Being an insomniac, I have to wait until the early hours and a clear night to be rewarded with a deep dark sky and stars…

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