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    Skyglow (or sky glow) is the diffuse luminance of the night sky, apart from discrete light sources such as the Moon and visible individual stars. It is...
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  • started with professional and amateur astronomers alarmed that nocturnal skyglow from urban areas was blotting out the sight of stars. For example, the...
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    SKYGLOW is an ongoing crowdfunded project exploring light pollution and its impact on cities, as well as North America's endangered dark-sky locations...
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    light-polluted skies and that 23 percent of the world's land area is affected by skyglow. The area affected by artificial illumination continues to increase. A...
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    moonlight, skyglow, and light pollution. The International Dark-Sky Association has been vocal in championing the cause of reducing skyglow and light pollution...
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    both professional and amateur astronomers seek locations far from urban skyglow. The fact that the sky is not completely dark at night, even in the absence...
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    American Film Institute. He is the co-creator of the viral timelapse series SKYGLOW, cinematographer and co-producer of the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced documentary...
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    effect accompanying a SAID. In August 2018, researchers determined that the skyglow of the phenomenon was not associated with particle precipitation (electrons...
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    Senator Joel Anderson. In 2015, Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic co-founded SKYGLOW, a crowdfunded book and Blu Ray project to tackle the rising danger and...
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    point sources of light such as stars, except in regions with more intense skyglow due to light pollution, moonlight, auroras, and other sources of light...
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  • glare, and light directed into the night sky above the horizon causes skyglow. Lighting can also cause light trespass when it enters areas where unwanted...
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    varied their paint schemes to suit differing flight conditions such as the skyglow over German cities, or the sands of the Mediterranean front. During and...
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    night sky. It is used, typically by amateur astronomers, to quantify the skyglow aspect of light pollution and uses units of "magnitudes per square arcsecond"...
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    illuminates the nighttime, with their diffuse aspects being termed skyglow. The amount of skyglow increases each year due to artificial lighting. Night exists...
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    that addresses lighting within dark-sky preserves and influences from skyglow from urban areas in the region. This was based on the work of the Royal...
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  • amateur astronomers as a sub-section of the BAA specialising in combatting skyglow. It is now open to non-members of the BAA, includes lighting engineers...
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  • yielded to a light-color camouflage scheme that took advantage of the skyglow over German cities at night — this generally comprised the use of the Luftwaffe's...
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    The comet hypothesis was further supported by the glowing skies (or "skyglows" or "bright nights") observed across Eurasia for several evenings after...
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  • France Media Centre Lume, national audiovisual centre at Helsinki, Finland skyglow, the glow above a city at night This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    silhouetted against lights of a city. When partial blackouts were introduced towards the middle of 1942, skyglow continued to be a problem in coastal cities....
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    designed to block the sodium and mercury vapor light, and also block natural skyglow such as the auroral light. This allows observing nebulae from the city...
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    comets and stars are also used to measure the local level of artificial skyglow. One branch of amateur astronomy, amateur astrophotography, involves the...
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    light blue previously used during the mid-war years, while retaining the skyglow-based light gray base color/darker gray "wave-mirror" irregular lines or...
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  • years ago, much earlier than thought before. Researchers report that the skyglow of STEVE ("Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement"), an atmospheric...
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    to reduce energy consumption and thus air pollution while also reducing skyglow/light pollution. On Anzac Day 25 April 2006 Federal Environment and Heritage...
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    This increased light scattering within the atmosphere leads to increased skyglow. During bad weather such as heavy rain, snow or fog, this scattering can...
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    cultural and economic reasons for concern about excessive light at night. Skyglow prevents large fractions of the Earth's population from viewing the Milky...
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    building renovations beginning in December 2020. Ecological light pollution Skyglow Towerkill with antenna towers and masts Bird strike with cars or planes...
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    that brightens the night sky. Types of light pollution which include: Skyglow, a hazy glow produced by the reflection water molecules in the air that...
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  • total output. It is used in order to select outdoor lamps that minimize skyglow and ecological light pollution. The G-index was originally proposed by...
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