Sep 2023: Sensory Deprivation

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This month, host Bill McGeeney is joined by Frank Turina, an astrophotographer, night sky advocate, and environmental educator with more than 15 years of working with the United States National Park Service Night Skies Program. You can learn more about his examinations of the ecological and cultural effects of light pollution from his website, at Darkskyastrophoto.
And Ken Walczak, Senior Manager of the Far Horizons program at the Adler Planetarium, Co-Author of numerous papers on design and use of innovating instrumentation for light pollution research, and co-lead in the successful designation of the world's largest Urban Night Sky Place, the Palos Preserves. Walczak is also a board member with Dark Sky International.
See Full Show Notes at LightPollutionNews.com.

• With inspiration from Indianapolis, Destination Cleveland plans major downtown lighting installation, Susan Glaser, The Plain Dealer Cleveland.
• LED billboards could buy their way to Miami streets via campaign donations, Ladra, Political Cortadito.
• 150% increase in light pollution in three years may lead to loss of dark sky status for park, Catherine Hubbard, Stuff.co
• City of London Corporation Adopts New Net-Zero Light Pollution Guidance, Ella Tansley, This Week in FM.
• Environmental organization files 106 page report over light pollution on Palm Beach, threatens lawsuit, Caleb Califano, WPBF.
• Powys stargazers hit as £3,000 of telescopes stolen from observatory, Matt Jones, POWS Country Times.
• West Texas Oil Country Is Revealing a Sky Full of Stars, Sam Karas, Reasons to be Cheerful.
• Sphere lights up Las Vegas skyline with massive LED display, ABC News
• Artificial Light at Night: state of the science 2023 report released, John Barentine, Dark Sky Int’l.
• The Best No-Crowd Places to Go Stargazing, Emma Veidt, Backpacker.
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Chapter

1. Sep 2023: Sensory Deprivation (00:00:00)

2. Art, or Light Pollution? (00:11:54)

3. UK Light and Noise Pollution (00:26:01)

4. How a Texas community got Big Oil on board with responsible lighting. (00:45:38)

5. Is Star Gazing Better as a Social Activity? (01:05:01)

6. LED Conversions - A tale of two communities. (01:35:01)