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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!acb20
- From: acb20@cus.cam.ac.uk (A.C. Baker)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Light pollution
- Summary: Request info on efforts to reduce light pollution
- Keywords: light pollution, naked eye astronomy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.141431.28315@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:14:31 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.031207.13073@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Nov14.031207.13073@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey) writes:
- >I haven't seen any stars at all for the past several months at night.
- >I'm in a badly light polluted area (New Jersey, 20 miles west of NYC),
- >but I used to be able to see 1st and 2nd magnitude stars. Now, nothing.
- >I still can see the Moon and the Sun, but that's it.
-
- OK, so this particular degredation is attributed to something other than
- increase in light pollution - but I am still horrified by this post.
-
- Astronomy is, along with the space programme, *the* biggest thing that gets
- people interested in science. Yet more and more westerners, and others, now
- live with light pollution that makes stars next to invisible ... possible
- links to the decline of industry and eductation etc in the UK, the US etc
- immediately come to mind ...
-
- So, can anyone give us an update on the fight against light pollution, and
- the waste of resources (tax payers money going to light up the skies) which
- must be occuring? Any organisations out there looking for support in this
- fight?
-
- Yours, returning to normal breathing,
-