Cyril
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Motorhomes under the stars!! They are everywhere.
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I live in Scotland where setting fire to the hillsides was once like some sort of ritual to appease their gods, the land owners. But in recent years, even before Covid, it has be actively discouraged, we no longer lose our hills a grey smoke induced smog while our village doesn,t have it's cap of foul smelling open cast coal smog every cold night. Perhaps the way to go is to talk to local environment agencies about air quality. Cyril
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If there is free money going those living on these islands will be first in line for it! Rum may not have many midges but it has a lot of ticks,
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My Neighbours 1) Really 2) really 3) really like security lights.
Cyril replied to Chris's topic in The Astro Lounge
Does this not still apply "In 2006 the law was changed to include ‘light nuisance’ as a statutory nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This new power allows Councils to take legal action against those responsible who continue to cause light nuisance despite being advised of a problem." -
We had some really clear late night skies recently, only problem was the temperature, minus 7 is far too cold for my old bones.
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I know how it feels to see someone's hobby/life disappear, my brother a military modeller for most of his life passed away around this time last year, he had a room in his house with years of work in it, some winning him awards, I was allowed to keep half a dozen of his models the rest went to a house clearance company and a lot to the bin man. Here's one I kept, the background is my doing.
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I was dismayed when I discovered that they had started to erect lights along the A road that passes our village, it's a busy road during the day but at night it's quiet, so I wrote to the authorities about them. The reply was quick and informative. "I can confirm that the street lighting being installed within the extended section will be LED luminaires with flat cut off lenses and a lower colour temperature. This technology is commonly specified in dark sky areas and is sympathetic to astronomy. In addition to this, we have specified dynamic road lighting within this section. The dynamic lighting will operate at full power during peak traffic periods and then dim to 10% power output out with these periods. The system will then only increase lighting levels when a pedestrian or cyclist movement is detected, whereby lighting will be increased gradually for small sections as the user navigates along the stretch, with the section they leave behind gradually reverting back to 10%." Perhaps our wildlife will now have a better chance crossing the road as well.
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Elon Musk SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon
Cyril replied to StarryEyed's topic in Celestial Events Heads Up
Pity Musk wasn't flying it and I heard he's just launched a 'spy satelitte. -
Nothing on companies house and the last review was 553 days ago. Covid has hammered small companies. But no contact with paying customers should ring alarm bells.
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My Neighbours 1) Really 2) really 3) really like security lights.
Cyril replied to Chris's topic in The Astro Lounge
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Help me with the Letter to Council to shade Streetlights
Cyril replied to RolandKol's topic in The Astro Lounge
Try this guy James Heappey The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Conservative MP for Wells The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is committed to improving energy efficiency across the defence estate in line with the Net Zero ambition. Energy efficient lighting is one aspect of this and there is a proactive programme to transition to LED lighting. For new builds the MOD policy is to achieve an excellent rating under the Defence Related Environmental Assessment Methodology (DREAM) which requires the use of energy efficient fittings.- 21 replies
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Help me with the Letter to Council to shade Streetlights
Cyril replied to RolandKol's topic in The Astro Lounge
I spoke to our council and pointed out that their new LED lights, fitted to the existing high lamp poles, were lighting up the hillside behind our house more so than the sodium lights had done before and could we have a shade put on it, I also mentioned that I dabbled in astronomy, a week later a shade appeared on the light. Recently they have removed some of the old high poles and replaced them with shorter, lower than the roof top, poles with diffused LED lights.- 21 replies
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They should drop the word security and change it to nuisance lighting, we have an old folks home that has two of these led 'security lights' that shine straight at our house for why?
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Musk's latest is that he wants to launch a satellite Billboard for advertising!!! If he gets away with it there is no stopping at how low he can get when he considers anyone else's view. Our planet is surround by a cloak of satellites, so many that it must have an effect on the planet and atmosphere, who knows but would they tell us.
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Ulitimate goal? Money He raised billions of dollars for his starlink with a promise to pay it back in three years.