News Archive
2014
August 10: AT_LinzUmB at Piberbach is operational.
French Light Pollution Maps for different conditions http://www.avex-asso.org/dossiers/wordpress/?page_id=38#les-nouvelles-carte-de-pollution-lumineuse-2011
June 30th: Kepler-Obervatory: Kepler-Sternwarte Linz - computer change after 4.6 years of taking data - the original lightmeter is still running.
June 28th: We are slowly re-opening: edits are now possible with a confirmed Email-account: mail to verein@kuffner-sternwarte.at with your username-wish and we will send you the access. --GW (talk) 11:29, 28 June 2014 (CEST)
June 17th: Import-Test Großmugl
May 29th: We are slowly recovering after an attack that vandalized the Lightmeter wiki. The attack happened during an upgrade to the new Mediawiki version.
May 3rd: Mediawiki update to Version 1.22.2 completed on May 3rd; GW -- 22:08, 3. Mai 2014 (CEST)
Apr. 14th, 2014: Vienna's lightdome shows 10% increase 2013, the 3rd year of network-monitoring Licht über Wien III (Vienna Environmental Protection Agency), (pdf, 3MB)
=From the old wiki Lightmeter page
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May 3rd: Mediawiki update to Version 1.22.2 completed on May 3rd; GW --NorbertHerz (Diskussion) 22:08, 3. Mai 2014 (CEST).
Sep. 26th 2013: Gabriel Stoekl (GAVO) announces the easy-Lightmeter, a Rasberry PI data logger for the Lightmeter that automaticall records and transfers data to the GAVO-database, http://licht.sternhell.at/ - the software should be released in a couple of months. GS Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMdLVWrSRZ8 .
June 11th 2013: Report on one year of monitoring with the Vienna Lightmeter Network Licht über Wien II: Wiener Lichtbericht 2012 online at the Wiener Umweltanwaltschaft (Vienna Environmental Protection Agency).
Jan. 12th 2013: First results from the new SETAGAYA (Tokyo) station as presented at a star party on 11 Jan. at the Setagaya Planetarium. From June to December 2012 the light at night 8 km from the centre of Tokyo scatters around the maximum full-moon values but some hours during the year are 15 times darker than the full moon - still about 10 times abouve natural light at night. --GuentherWuchterl 17:03, 14. Jan. 2013 (UTC)
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