Star Count 2020
From the 21st to the 28th February 2020, The Countryside Charity are asking people around the UK to join a citizen-science project. Anybody can take part – all you need […] Continue Reading »
Category Archives: Light Pollution
Clear skies tonight – please count the stars and help us save them
We have received an update from Emma Marrington (Senior Rural Policy Campaigner at the Campaign to Protect Rural England), regarding the Star Count for National Astronomy Week 2014 (which runs […] Continue Reading »
“Light Pollution” by Mr. Gerard Gilligan, Summer Lectures Series, 23rd August 1995
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Star Count 2014 – Count stars, win a prize
The Campaign to Protect Rural England‘s Dark Skies division and the British Astronomical Association have partnered with National Astronomy Week 2014 to run Star Count 2014. From the website: By […] Continue Reading »
Astronomy and Space News Roundup: 14th May 2013 to 19th May 2013
A tantalising taste of Titanian topography; the Southern Hemisphere’s only dedicated professional comet-hunting telescope may be forced to shut down; and a Near Earth Asteroid provides opportunities for the press […] Continue Reading »
New LED streetlamp design may help reduce light pollution
A news article from the BBC outlines work by a team who are developing an improvement to LED streetlamp designs, which they claim will be able to reduce the wasted […] Continue Reading »
Hidden Costs of Light Pollution
As people interested in the night sky, we’re often aware of Light Pollution’s most direct impact on us (indeed it’s increasingly difficult to escape it) but sometimes forget about its […] Continue Reading »
The LAS Star Party at Croxteth Hall December 2nd/3rd, 2000
The following are a few snaps I took with an Olympus C3000Z. Original resolution 2048×1536; most JPEGs generally 512×384. Continue Reading »
Summer Lecture Program, August – September 1995
Summer lectures series – 1995 Being held during selective Wednesday evenings between June and Early September at the N.M.G.M-Liverpool Museum, Basement Lecture Theatre, from 7pm:- August 2nd Speaker: Mr Ken […] Continue Reading »