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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220614-the-crusade-for-darker-night-skies>
"On dark nights when the Moon is hidden and the clouds are at bay, Kevin Hughes
sits at the bottom of his garden and gazes up at a velvety black sky. In
contrast to his childhood growing up in London amidst the glare of orange
sodium-vapour lights, he usually sees hundreds – and, as his eyes adjust,
thousands – of stars studding the night sky.
Hughes lives in Cornwall, a peninsula in the southwestern tip of England that
juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. His home is in West Penwith, a region
renowned for its rugged moors, granite tors and mystic stone circles. Dark
skies are a portal to this heritage: "These are the same stars that cavemen in
furs and woolly mammoths would look at in the Neolithic [era]," says Hughes.
Although the landscape around them is undergoing change, with new houses,
hotels and developments springing up, residents of West Penwith can feel safe
in the knowledge that their night skies will likely be protected for
generations to come. This is because in December 2021, the region became a Dark
Sky Park: an international marker of exceptionally low light pollution."
Via
Future Crunch Jul 2, 2022:
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-malaria-bullfighting-offshore-wind/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
