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- From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Joseph Edelman)
- Subject: Re: Light pollution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.183819.17542@cs.wayne.edu>
- Sender: usenet@cs.wayne.edu (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu
- Organization: Wayne State University
- References: <BxvEFF.ICK@access.digex.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:38:19 GMT
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- In article ICK@access.digex.com, rbunge@access.digex.com (Robert Bunge) writes:
- > [...]
- >REMEMBER THESE LETTERS: IDA - Internation Dark Sky Assoc. They advertise
- >in both ASTRONOMY and Sky & Telescope Magazines. For 20 to $50 dollars a
- >year, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. YES, I'M YELLING... AT ALL OF YOU.
- >
- >Really, sometimes I feel like grabbing other amateur astronomer around
- >the neck when they start complaining about light pollution. "Do you
- >belong to IDA?" The answer is almost always no. Even though IDA's
- >membership is increasing at a huge rate (on the order of 100 or 200
- >percent per, the data is at home), LESS THEN 2 PERCENT OF AMATEUR
- >AND PROFESSIONAL ASTRONOMERS BELONG TO IDA!
-
- Hear, hear! First thing I did when I got active again was to join IDA. Only
- $20 to help bring back dark skies? A bargain. Given that the typical scope is probably
- around $1,000 or more, and given that $20 won't even buy a single eyepiece, what is everybody waiting for? --mike
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