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Lightmeter: A network of newly-developed, low-cost lightmeters starts the global continuous monitoring of artificial night sky brightening (light pollution). Jan. 2013: >300 Lightmeters. more
May 3rd: Mediawiki update to Version 1.22.2 completed on May 3rd; GW --NorbertHerz (Diskussion) 22:08, 3. Mai 2014 (CEST). --Nero2401 (Diskussion) 22:35, 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)
Sep. 26th 2013: Gabriel Stoekle (GAVO) announces the easy-Lightmeter, a Rasberry PI data logger for the Lightmeter that automatically records and transfers data to the GAVO-database, http://licht.sternhell.at/ - the software should be released in a couple of months.
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 above natural light at night. --GuentherWuchterl 17:03, 14. Jan. 2013 (UTC)
Sep. 20th 2012:, 8 UTC first light for the southernmost Lightmeter (47° S) at Mt. John Observatory, Lake Tekapo in the Lake Tekapo - Aoraki - Mount Cook Starlight Reserve, New Zealand, http://starlightreserve.org (IDA gold http://www.darksky.org/page/IDSReserves ).
Apr. 27th 2012:, Light over Vienna - a study of the energy content of Vienna's light-dome and the top light emitters (in german): Download pdf from WUA at the Vienna enviromental protection agency WUA, http://wua-wien.at/
How many stars can we still see?: Simple naked eye sightings of the Little Dipper or Orion serve to determine the quality of the world's night skies. more
- What is Light Pollution? by Jan Hollan
- La Palma Deklaration und Nacht/Sternschutzgebiete (Starlight-Reserve)
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