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Re:Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locati... by dylan604 on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:58PM (#16242849)
There is a big push by dark sky advocates to have cities rethink their lighting. Nobody really expects metropolitan areas to just suddenly go replace existing lighting, but at least for new lighting installs to use dark sky friendly lights. These just keep light shining where it's needed (shining down) versus wasting energy by lighting upwards. Some cities are positively responding, and considering this when replacing/updating lights.

The astronomy campus I frequent works closely with the local and county government to replace lights to be more dark sky friendly as they are working to be officially recognized as a dark sky location.

Re:Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locati... by canoebuilder on Friday January 26, 2018 @11:33PM (#16244878)
There is a big push by dark sky advocates to have cities rethink their lighting.

Do you have any links for formal or informal organizations or individuals working on this? thanks

Re:Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locati... by dylan604 on Saturday January 27, 2018 @01:41AM (#16245148)
I saw that someone else provided links to good info. As an anecdotal piece of evidence, I know that big box home improvement places like Home Depot have a dark sky category in their outdoor lighting department. I was flabbergasted the first time I saw that. I would love to see the affect of all homeowners replacing light fixtures with these types of lights. As an example, in the last video I linked earlier today, there are small lights on the horizon that shine very brightly in the video clips. There's one light source in particular that is a single lamp on a pole located on a ranch that is several miles away. If you multiply that by the output of every lamp in a city, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to quickly understand why we can't see the sky at night.
Re:Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locati... by mitchellberry on Saturday January 27, 2018 @12:38AM (#16245016)