Posted by admin | Mar 13, 2019 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
For those who missed it, Feb. 19 brought a super snow moon, the biggest and brightest supermoon of the year. Social media and national news sites lit up with spectacular photos of the event, with an unusually large full moon rising above the horizon. Although...
Posted by admin | Feb 26, 2019 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Earlier this month, the International Dark-Sky Association was contacted by a group of students from Bioscience High School in Phoenix, Arizona. The group, Helping Achieve a Renewable Planet (H.A.R.P.), has been researching the subject of light pollution and is now...
Posted by admin | Feb 2, 2019 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Night Skies, Public Lands, Scenic Beauty
DEL RIO– Devils River State Natural Area has been designated an International Dark Sky Sanctuary by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), making it the only Dark Sky Sanctuary in Texas. As the sixth International Dark Sky Sanctuary to receive the title,...
Posted by admin | Jan 4, 2019 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Serbian artists Ivana Jelić and Pavle Petrović have reimagined Van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night as an LED installation over the canals of Amsterdam, to highlight the issue of light pollution in urban areas. A series of 1,400 acrylic rods illuminated...
Posted by admin | Dec 20, 2018 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Forget going out to view your neighborhood’s Christmas lights this year: You can do it the 21st-century way, bathed in the pallid glow of a monitor. That’s because NASA has just released a wonderful bunch of satellite images of American cities, gleaming...
Posted by admin | Dec 19, 2018 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
The City of Murrieta, California earlier this month became the first of 11 Riverside County cities to obtain ownership of thousands of streetlights that will be retrofit with LED fixtures to minimize light pollution, enhance public safety and save approximately $60...