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=How Many Stars ...?: Call for lightmeter requests and regional campaigns=

==Summary==

# Request a lightmeter to rapidly extend the night-sky monitoring network!
# Participate in the "eight years later"-campaign in May!
# Prepare your regional "How Many Stars ...?" campaign!

How many stars ...? http://starlit.astronomy2009.at/
is part of the http://www.darkskiesawarnes.org IYA-cornerstone.

== Call for lightmeter requests ==

Lightmeter requests: The thirty prototypes of the first series
are all distributed. A number of additional requests are in. 
To fund the production of the second series of instruments and 
guarantee a cost of less than 100 € we urgently need 100 orders.

Please consider to order a lightmeter immediately or adopt some,
ie guarantee their funding or sponsor them. If we reach the 100 
lightmeter requests we will be able to ship them within about 
five weeks. The present goal for delivery is the dark-time 
starting May 11th. 

Mail your request to lightmeter@astronomy2009.at

To run a lightmeter you need 

# a place with good view of the sky,
# a computer with USB and Windows XP, 2000, NT within 20 m
# 100 € for the lightmeter
	   
For more information and runing lightmeters under Linux go to 
http://lightmeter.astronomy2009.at Login: Guest IYA2009


== Special campaign in May: night sky-comparison 2001 - 2009 ==

In May a special campaign will start to directly compare 
night-sky measurements to the results of the first 
"How Many stars ..." in 2001.

The May-campaign will allow a direct comparison of the
present state of the night-skies to the thousands of 
sightings reported eight years ago.

The goal is to have the next 100 lightmeters at their new
homes by then. So contact us now!


== Call to prepare your regional campaigns ==

In April "How many stars ...?" takes over from Globe at night.  

Initiate a campaign in your region in the following steps:

# LANGUAGE: Chose a language or translate to your favourite one.
	   Contact Verein@Kuffner-Sternwarte.at for access to
	   implement your language at http://starlit.astronomy2009.at
# AREA: Select a geographical area for the display
	   of results appropriate to your campaign
	   (e.g. city, country, continent).
# WEB-ADDRESS: Select a topical name of the form 
	   mydomain.astronomy2009.at that is easy to hear and 
	   understand in your language for radio/audio-broadcast, 
	   short for TV and the press and easy to remember and 
	   type into the browser (examples below)
# TELL the media near you.

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== About "How Many Stars...?" ==

Simple naked eye sightings of the Little Dipper or Orion 
serve to determine the quality of the world's night skies. 

A network of newly-developed, low-cost lightmeters start 
the global continuous monitoring of artificial night sky 
brightening (light pollution).


== Status of "How Many Stars... ? and the lightmeter Network" ==

Instructions are available in 14 languages (three more coming soon)
and easily accessible via topical web-addresses that contain
regional real-time maps of results.

http://starlit.astronomy2009.at leads to the English version with 
world maps, nebo.astronomy2009.at to Russian and Russia,for example.

Lightmeters are presently continuously monitoring the sky in 
Berlin, Vienna (2), Tautenburg/Jena (2), Figl-observatory
near Vienna (2), Graz, Heidelberg, with installations in progress 
on Cerro Tollolo, Linz, Split, Suhl, Brno.


Illustrations: 
Lightmeter photographed in starlight
HMS: present results

22:16, 21. Mär. 2009 GuentherWuchterl (

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