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Light pollution is one of the most dramatic changes in our environment. Assimilation lamps in greenhouses, security lights in gardens, illuminated roads, xenon projections onto monuments and advertising boards along each highway. A side effect of the light seems inextricably urbanisation and the 24-hour economy. In an industrialized area like Western Europe it is virtually impossible to find even places where the sky is really dark.
Chigaco Night, photographer Jim Richardson
About two-third of the world's population and 99% of the population in Europe and the Americas (except Alaska and Hawaii) live in areas where the night sky is above average ' polluted ' with light. The sight on the Milky way has disappeared at one-fifth of the world population, more than two-thirds of the u.s. population and more than half of the European population.
Originally posted by Jauk3
It's a shame that there is so much light pollution. I've never seen the Milky way, it's one of my dreams to see it though.
Originally posted by Freezer
Originally posted by Jauk3
It's a shame that there is so much light pollution. I've never seen the Milky way, it's one of my dreams to see it though.
Get a good pair of binoculars, it's hard to miss. Anyways my old astronomy teacher tried to get legislation passed to convert streetlights, into only outputing the light downwards. The streetlight near my house always drowns out the night sky. You can actually turn them off by flooding the light sensor with a laser, but I don't think that is legal, and the neighbors might not approve.
Originally posted by Jauk3
I have a good pair of binoculars and I've been looking at stars and clusters but what I ment is that I want to see our Milky Way with the naked eye like you saw in the video.edit on 5-3-2012 by Jauk3 because: (no reason given)