Our night sky is disappearing in the fog of light pollution, faster than expected.
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Our night sky is disappearing in the fog of light pollution, faster than expected.
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Indeed, really sad state of affairs. As an astrophotographer and living in an area where all the lights are LED it's really noticeable in my images. Sadly, filter technology, other than really narrow band filters, is slow to catch up and probably won't be able to effectively filter LED light out due to its broad spectrum. Cities need dimmer switches!
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Even in my little patch of heaven I had a few neighbors moving into houses that were recently built in my area recently.
I have pleaded with them to keep the lights off at night most happily comply but I got one or two people would just leave the lights on and they leave them on 24/7 even during the day ridiculous.
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My old neighborhood was the same. I even had neighbors stop by when I had my scope out and in the process of looking through the eyepiece comment on all the lights in the area! Some were the very same ones that left the outside lights on all night long!!Frankskywatcher wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:00 pm It’s definitely happening I’m not sure what we can do about it.
Even in my little patch of heaven I had a few neighbors moving into houses that were recently built in my area recently.
I have pleaded with them to keep the lights off at night most happily comply but I got one or two people would just leave the lights on and they leave them on 24/7 even during the day ridiculous.
https://www.darkskysociety.org/
We have since moved into a neighborhood less light polluted!!
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They do it for cost saving but I enjoy the benefit when the skies are clear.
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This worked quite well for some time as the night sky definitely improved , but over time in my area most have installed solar panels and solar lights , and some even run generators , so now besides the light pollution being the same , we now have noise pollution as well .
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Seems to get worse every year
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It sure does!
In my area, led lighting has made it much worse. I didn’t know how good i had it with sodium vapor lighting.
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Don’t get me wrong, the filters and software are awesome, but dark skies (in my backyard) would surely be better!
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