GLOBE at Night: Saving Energy Saving our Night Skies

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, March 22 through April 6. Your measurements will make a world of difference.

In the spirit of working together toward a common goal, GLOBE at Night would like to endorse the Earth Hour event on March 26 from 8:30 til 9:30pm and suggest the GLOBE at Night participants take data before during and after Earth Hour as a means of doing research later.

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