As lights block out the night sky, help measure the damage

[Oli]

Though this was a neat article on New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28701-as-lights-block-out-the-night-sky-help-measure-the-damage/

The App is called Loss of the Night where you can record what you can see where you live/go. There is an app for both Android and iOS.

The official website is here http://www.myskyatnight.com/#about

Oli

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very interesting initiative

[Dave Lloyd]

Got it on my phone, my Android tablet is not compatible with it for some reason.

[SteveNickolls]

Thanks so much for this Oli, I will see if I can download to my tablet.

Cheers,

Steve

[Brave Sir Robin]

I've just downloaded the app from google play. Seems to work okay on my HTC.

I think that this is an important way that we as astronomers can help, and also see how light pollution increases (or hopefully decreases) as more street lights are converted to LED.

[bingevader]

I'm still waiting for the windows version.

[Brave Sir Robin]

I tried this out last night as I was packing away the scope.

It's pretty intuitive, and seems to work okay. I'm looking forward to doing repeated observations to see how my sky changes over time.

It was pretty clear last night with a Limiting Naked Eye Magnitude of around 5.

Not bad considering that I'm in the middle of a town of roughly 47,000 people.

The Orion Nebula looked spectacular, but I was sad not to be able to pick out some of the galaxies in Uma group, even with the moon out of the way.

Might have to take the new scope out somewhere darker to give myself a treat though!