Do you enjoy looking at the moon and stars at night, as I do?
Do you enjoy shooting them, as I do?
Do you wish that you could see the objects in the night sky more clearly, as I do?
Is your neighborhood or town beset by unnecessary light pollution from poor streetlight design, as mine is?
Is your property nightly flooded with blinding light due to inconsiderate neighbors’ outdoor lighting techniques (the “some is good, more is better” philosophy), as mine is?
Can you see the Milky Way from your home, or only when you’re camping?
Please check out http://www. darksky.org for a good explanation of why light pollution control and the use of downlighting make a community more livable and safer.
The site is sponsored by the IDA, the International Dark-Sky Association.
Without a dark sky, images like this eclipse shot are all but impossible.
So let there NOT be unnecessary and overly bright lighting at night…
Let the stars and moon shine in all their glory!
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