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Light Pollution News

  • 05-01-2004 4:00pm
    #1
    albertw
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    Hi all,

    Hope you all had a good Christmas, and best wishes for the New Year!

    Recently we have had some enguires from people about light pollution near
    major roads. For the most part the NRA appears to doing a reasonable job in
    installing FCO flat glass lighting fixtures in rural areas, though this is
    done on a case by case basis and they have no policy to use this type of
    lighting exclusivly. We have written to the Environmental Manager of the
    NRA asking that they use FCO's for all fixtures, a copy of the letter can
    be found here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilpac/files/ilpac-nra.pdf it
    will be on the website soon also.

    If there are any of you living near road developments or proposed road
    develeopments please contact the development office to see what lighting
    fixtures they propose to use. Drop us a mail if you need any more data or
    want to discus a submission before sending it on. The list address is
    ilpac@yahoogroups.com and if you just want to contact the committee (such
    as it is!) mail ilpac@irishastronomy.org

    Also if writing to the NRA about a local road has got your interest then
    please consider adding yourself to the almost empty list of contact people
    we have at a local level -
    http://www.irishastronomy.org/~ilpac/councils.html We really need people
    working at local/county level as its up to the County Council to decide on
    street lighting policy.

    Some of us will be attending the Connaught Star Party on January 24th in
    Galway (http://homepage.tinet.ie/~galwayastronomyclub/), we may even have a
    stand set up! so do say hello if youre there.

    The Christmas break also has given us time to write some articles. They are
    mainly geared at the Astronomy audience and hopefully will be appearing in
    Astronomy club magazines (and the Irish Times courtesy of Colm) in the
    coming months. We will put these on the website soon also. If you have
    contacts with other magazones that you think may be of interst in writing a
    piece then please let us know and we will put something appropriate together.

    Thats all for now. Please send on any thoughts/comments/abuse you have!

    Cheers,
    ~Al
    --
    Deputy Chairperson,
    Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign - www.irishastronomy.org/ilpac
    Irish Section of the International Dark Sky Association - www.darksky.org


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