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SKYGLOW Project

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Public

Type: General Meetings

Held on: May 16, 2018 (Wed) at 07:30 PM to May 16, 2018 (Wed) at 09:00 PM

Speaker: Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan

Location: Physics/Astronomy Auditorium (PAA), Room A102, Seattle, Washington

Event Coordinator: Rayna C.T. Bauer

Overview

Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan will be speaking with attendees about light polution and their fight to reclaim the night sky. 

After a grueling three-year journey of over 150,000 miles and 3,000,000 pictures, the SKYGLOW Project, which tackles the most light polluted cities and pristine Dark-Sky preserves of North America, has been completed. A blend of images, stories, essays, anecdotal captions and astro-timelapse videos, the SKYGLOW book and videos explores the history and importance of celestial observation, the proliferation of electrical outdoor lighting spurring the rise of the phenomena known as Light Pollution, and the Dark-Sky Movement which is fighting back to reclaim the pristine night skies the Earth had enjoyed for billions of years. 

Map

Latitude 47.65292179999999, Longitude -122.3110595

More Information

Image: A street undergoing LED retrofitting, lit half in Sodium Vapor (right) and half in LED (left) from skyglowproject.com

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