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Campaign for Dark Skies (CfDS) |
Page updated - 12 February 2006 |
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The Background |
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Light pollution affects affects everyone. Whether it be a neighbour’s security light shining in your bedroom window when you’re trying to sleep or the “nuclear” orange glow of our towns and cities at night. It hasn’t always been that way. Light pollution really came to the fore in the later years of the 20th century. Poor street lighting in some of our towns and cities means that residents, including the wildlife, live in almost 24 hour daylight conditions. This affects the day-night feeding, mating and living patterns of countless species and robs the human inhabitants of the chance to see the beauty of the night sky.
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The Campaign |
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The British Astronomical
Association’s Campaign for Dark Skies is committed to better lighting for
our towns and cities, directed to where it’s needed not into the surrounding
environment. The Campaign for Dark
Skies (CfDS) aims to preserve and restore the beauty of the night sky
by campaigning against excessive, inefficient and irresponsible lighting
that shines where it is not wanted nor needed. We believe that
light should only shine where it is needed and wanted, and
no-where else. Doing so is both easy and cost-effective - and with
significant health and safety benefits.
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Contacts |
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I live in Great Cornard and have recently been appointed as the local representative for the Campaign for Dark Skies. If anyone has any local light pollution issues, I can be contacted via email - email Andy Bowes - or visit the The Campaign for Dark Skies area of British Astronomical Association website.
Andy Bowes – Local Amateur Astronomer
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