GLOBE at Night

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GLOBE at Night

Post by bystander » Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:06 pm

Less of Our Light for More Star Light
Join the 6th worldwide GLOBE at Night 2011 campaign: Feb. 21 - March 6
With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban dwellers have never experienced the wonderment of pristinely dark skies and maybe never will. Light pollution is obscuring people’s long-standing natural heritage to view stars. The GLOBE at Night program is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by encouraging everyone everywhere to measure local levels of night sky brightness and contribute observations online to a world map. All it takes is a few minutes to participate between 8-10 pm, February 21 through March 6. Your measurements will make a world of difference. Read More...
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[list=1] Five Easy Star-Hunting Steps:

[*] Find your latitude and longitude.

[*] Find Orion by going outside an hour after sunset
(about 7-10 pm local time).

[*] Match your nighttime sky to one of our magnitude charts.

[*] Report your observation.

[*] Compare your observation to thousands around the world. [/list][/b]
Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be
alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.
— Garrison Keillor

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Re: GLOBE at Night

Post by bystander » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:31 pm

Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be
alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.
— Garrison Keillor

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