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The time for reporting sky glow conditions for the Globe at Night project has elapsed. Fortunately, I was traveling around the state during this time so I was able to report observations for several areas.
During the two weeks or so the Globe at Night project was accepting results, I took measurements from Louisville, Boulder, […]
The photo at left is a picture of the street behind my backyard. As you can see, there are streetlights lining the entire length, just as you’d find on many streets. These streetlights are the reason I can’t set up my telescopes in my own backyard, they flood my house with so much […]
Look at this gawd-awful streetlamp. It is spewing photons all over the place, including people’s eyes when they look at it. Jeebus this irritates me.
Recently I was walking on the downtown mall in Boulder on a nice, cool night. Lots of people, lots of street performers, quite a lovely time. It […]
Last night, I went out in my backyard to take my estimate of the light pollution present. My backyard is a terrible place for an astronomer, I have three very bright streetlights flooding my backyard with photons. So many in fact that they actually cast a shadow, and I don’t need a flashlight […]
We are losing our night skies and from March 8 - 21 you can help do something about it.
Slowly but surely, the stars are fading from view. On average, when we look up at the sky on a clear, dark night, we can see only about 3000 stars and that number is getting smaller […]
I live in the worst possible neighborhood for observing the night sky. Just beyond my backyard are three extremely bright streetlights that blaze photons in all directions, not just at the ground, but up into the sky and into my face.
Beyond my front yard, lies a cul-de-sac where tightly packed homes all sport lights […]
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