[BAA-ebulletin 00566] Globe and Night Star Count

[BAA electronic bulletins service]

2011 Feb 28

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 help to map and to raise awareness of light
pollution across the globe.

The URL is : http://www.globeatnight.org/

Many thanks.

Martin Morgan-Taylor
BAA Campaign for Dark Skies
britastro.org/dark-skies