Wasted Lights and Wasted Nights
Upward-facing lights fog our starry nights. Replacing nature’s creations with urban constellations. Shed light on light pollution. Be part of the solution. Connie Walker Connie Walker was trained as an astronomer and is a science education specialist at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona. She directs the annual campaign, GLOBE at Night , which invites citizen-scientists to measure their local night sky brightness and contribute their measurements on-line to a world map of light pollution. Comments You need JavaScript to be able to post comments You need to be logged in to leave a comment...
Winter Night
Stand in the cold of a Winter Night. Breathe the air, crisp with ice, its sweetness bitter to the tongue and feel the breeze, so delicate to the touch, as it slips by effortlessly beneath your fingertips. And listen to the phantom murmur of the wind, the voice of a calmed spirit, as it whispers in your ears. And see the yellow resplendence of a waning Sun fade into land's end as the black cloak of evening slowly conceals the valley, heralding the end of another day. Look up and wonder at the sea, filled with blazing points of fire....
Let Me Shine
When Galileo was alive, he could see every Constellation in the sky Through the centuries Men, Women, and Children sang night time songs Never knowing it would soon be gone Then some damn fool invents the Street Light We all said goodbye to the skies at night Now it's up to us to find the ways To get back the good old days We spend all night awake, looking for a solution For this nightmare of ours is called Light Pollution - by Michael Uberty, USA. Comments You need JavaScript to be able to post comments You need to be...
