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Re:We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies by fhdkweig on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:59AM (#48979813)
Los Angeles has the Griffith Observatory. To allow the city to have street lighting while not interfering with the observatory, the lights are sodium vapor lights that emit a specific wavelength that the observatory can filter out. Since LEDs also use specific wavelengths, this could have been done.

I was disappointed that the article didn't mention this, especially because they did mention sodium, but only as a pretty color.

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Re:We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies by OkayPhysicist on Monday July 20, 2026 @12:07PM (#48980788)
I quite like the 2 wavelength light that sodium lamps give out. When I was in school, my university gradually went from all sodium to all LED, and it was definitely a loss. The complete loss of hue, combined with the soft buzz of a dying sodium lamp had a certain otherworldly feel to it. I found it quite relaxing.
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