Light pollution over Honolulu 2005

Overview
  What is Light Pollution?
  Problems With Light Pollution
  Its Importance to Hawai'i
  Safety
  Need for Lighting Ordinance?
  Good Lighting Principles
Links
  Photo Gallery


General information on light pollution
               
http://www.darksky.org  
International Dark Sky Assoc
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http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/44/lightpoll.html
The Universe in the Classroom - Light Pollution

http://www.lightpollution.it/worldatlas/pages/fig2.htm
Satellite views of light pollution across the USA 


Light at night and damage to ecosystems

               
http://www.flap.org
Fatal Light Awareness Program-bird collisions

http://www.urbanwildlands.org/abstracts.html
Report on the ecological consequences of artificial night lighting

http://www.urbanwildlands.org/Resources/LongcoreRich2004.pdf
Paper on ecological light pollution by Longcore and Rich
       

Light pollution and energy waste


http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+Hall/Business+Units/Roads/Streetlights/
EnviroSmart+Streetlight+Retrofit/FAQs.htm?Prn=1

How the city of Calgary changed all street lights to full cut off to save energy costs
       

Light at night and human health


http://www.darksky.org/links/photobio.html
General information on the science of circadian rhythms and light at night

http://www.darksky.org/links/pauleylhh.pdf  
Review paper by Dr S. Pauley on light at night and human health with multiple references

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/65/23/11174
Light at night, low melatonin, and breast cancer in humans; Paper in Cancer
Research by Dr DE Blask

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4799445.stm
Light 'risk' to human babies

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6655690
Is a Brighter Earth a Better One?

http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2008/03/14/turning-out-the-lights.html
Turning Out the Lights - the dangers of a bright night are becoming more apparent

http://www.skykeepers.org/handouts/pauleylhh.pdf
The Light at Night - Human Breast Cancer Connections


Light at night and astronomy


http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/article_84_1.asp
Astronomers and light pollution

http://starbulletin.com/2006/03/18/news/story12.html
A project for Hawai'i students to measure LP's effect on the night sky

http://www.hawastsoc.org/pollution.html
Hawai'i Astronomical Assoc. multiple links

http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/article_81_1.asp
The Bortle Dark Sky Scale-quantifying how dark your sky really is

http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/
Saving Dark Skies - Sky & Telescope page

http://www.lightpollution.it/worldatlas/pages/fig1.htm
World Atlas of Light Pollution from space


Small town ordinances


http://www.scn.org/darksky/code/id/ketcdrlo.html
Ketchum, ID dark sky ordinance

http://www.haileycityhall.org/planning/ordinance/light_ord_812.pdf
Hailey, ID outdoor lighting ordinance - 2002

http://sunvalley.govoffice.com/
Sun Valley, ID outdoor lighting ordinance

http://sunvalley.govoffice.com/vertical/Sites/%7B2C30E796-8326-4746-BE0E-7DC1B5CFDCC7%7D/uploads/%7B6DFAD751-7C0C-4A53-AFD7-4C9FCF0A7A72%7D.PDF
Lighting brochure mailed to Sun Valley Residents - 2004

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/nelpag/kennebunk.html
Kennebunkport, Maine outdoor lighting ordinance
     

List of other lighting ordinances

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/PROJECTS/STARRY_NIGHTS/LiteLynx.html
Multiple sources

http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/dsd/Codes___Ordinances/Tucson_Lighting_Code.pdf
City of Tucson Pima County Lighting Code, Separate environmental
(E) zones i.e. urban, residential, areas
around Kitt Peak Observatory


Protecting and treasuring the night sky

http://ghonis2.ho8.com/POLCforDCNR.htm
Protecting the Night Sky Resource of Cherry Springs Dark Sky Park

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/travel/escapes/14dark.html?
Dark Sky, Bright Lights Over Pennsylvania - NY Times, Sept. 14, 2007

http://www.upstateastro.org/stars/cssp.html
Cherry Springs State Park - A National Public Observatory and star gazing destination

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/cherrysprings.aspx
Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania's first dark sky state park

http://www.selene-ny.org/downloads/lightfixtures.pdf
Examples of Acceptable/Unacceptable Lighting Fixtures in the Town of Branford, CT


Hawai'i light pollution web sites

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/PROJECTS/STARRY_NIGHTS/
Web page of UH Prof. Lee Altenberg; Efforts to achieve a Maui County dark sky ordinance

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/PROJECTS/STARRY_NIGHTS/NEWS/
ADVERTISER/ADVERTISER.2002-1-24/

Maui star-lovers want dark skies - Advertiser; Jan '02

http://starbulletin.com/2006/03/18/news/story12.html
Isle youths to join global star hunt; Star Bulletin, March, '06

 

 

 


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