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Light Pollution: Changing the Situation to Everyone's Advantage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2016
Abstract
There is no question of the need for outdoor lighting to improve the effectiveness of our night-time environment. However, too much of the lighting installed to try to meet this need actually compromises the purpose, and it too often adversely affects the night-time environment, including our view of the stars and of the Universe above us. This urban sky glow severe impacts on all of astronomy, amateur and professional, as well as those of the public who enjoy and profit by the beauty offered by a prime dark sky. In the present paper, I review the issues involved and suggest guidelines to minimize these negative aspects of poor night-time lighting. With good outdoor lighting we all win.
- Type
- Part 2. Threats to Optical Astronomy
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 196: Preserving the Astronomical Sky , 2001 , pp. 33 - 38
- Copyright
- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001
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