Protecting our Dark Skies

Many thanks Steve.

I agree that the higher count is un-achievable but to get to 10K would at least bring this to the attention of the government. We can but try

Going to try to post the link at the top of each page many thanks to all for reading

The petition can be found here. If you do sign you will receive an email which you have to respond to for the signature to go through. It is a government website and you won't receive any spam by doing this.

**LINK**

Cheers

Not street lighting, but the council, or more properly the recreation hall committee has taken the old fluro tubes out of the local hall, and replaced them with LEDs, the light level is better, and it is a fairly soft light. Ian S C

Two more from here. Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers,

Rod

I'm signing myself.

If left unchecked for decades, this could become more than a nuisance and more a problem for public health, i think being diurnal species, we rely on light to tell us when to get up and when to go to sleep.(The brain goes through cycles of neuro-chemicals, such as dopamine and serotonin vaguely resembling a day/night cycle, for example)

It's been this way since forever, and as we turn more and more of our land into a metropolis we need to build responsibly and consider limiting growth altogether, of which this is a subset of. 

It might be early days for the awareness of this problem, but they wont be able to ignore this forever, i'm quite certain of that.

Michael W

Edited By Michael Walters on 12/06/2016 20:49:38

Here's how the light pollution in the UK look's from space.

The image above was taken from the International Space Station by Astronaut Paulo Nespoli (European Space Agency) during his six month mission. Tim Peake also has quite a few photo's on the net.

The main cities can easily be picked out, and looking closer you can make out major road networks such as the M25 around London. The problem is growing worse.

The petition can be found below. If you do sign you will receive an email which you have to respond to for the signature to go through. It is a government website and you won't receive any spam by doing this.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119428

Many thanks to all that have supported and signed this already. Your support is greatly appreciated

Damian

Edited By damian noble on 13/06/2016 10:35:11

Circadian rhythms are something our lab are very involved with Michael.

**LINK**

regards Martin

Do you mind if I post that link on another forum Martin as others I'm sure would be interested to read it.

Thanks

Damian

I live in a country area, the night sky is fast disappearing. Round here a lot of this extra light seems to be coming from the new houses, fast built kit buildings. The new owners put intrusion alarms and very bright lamps, some even come on when driving past. This has got me thinking- are we all getting scared of the dark ? I am out most nights and most times don't use a torch, can see well enough by moon or star light. Why do main roads have lights, modern cars have good headlights. I can see a congested city needing extra road lights but not a normal road. Just my rant of the day, but I do wonder if people are developing a fear of the unknown.

Hi Damien

Of course you can post. It's our external site and is designed to inform. If you click on (you may have already) the personal group page link at the top you will get the Royal Society Exhibition video demo's.

regards Martin

Hi Damian.

Are you putting the word out on other home workshop type internet websites?

Steve

Wow. The signature count has suddenly jumped up to over 9800. There is some marketing going on there! Kudos.

Steve