06-28-2009, 09:06 AM
fjp999 Wrote: ... Was just reading about city lights and how star gazers are finding less and less areas to do their thing. ...It's not just the city. Light pollution is a problem in most places. Just over twenty years ago I moved to a village without street lighting. It was one of the reasons I wanted to live there. I was incensed when the parish council decided to install street lamps, which is when I found out about the Campaign for Dark Skies. I contacted a PC rep and made sure that they knew I didn't want one outside my house. I'm glad I made such a fuss. The lights were dreadful, cheap ones that spilled everywhere. I never did apologise to the neighbour who ended up with one of these monsters outside her bedroom window.