Dealing with Streetlights

carl o beirnes wrote:It was only then I told the lads that I was an astronomer and they told me about your legal right to have the light deflected from your property. Interesting or what.[/quote]

Can you get me a legal reference or precedent for that? No one in any council or the DOE that I've spoken to is aware of it!

btw the article you mention was written by FOTIE with some input from me in advance of Earth Hour this year. Some of it needs updating I think.

as for the retrofits going on at the moment. Most are not FCO but are close (~1% ULOR). They are almost all compact flourescent. Low pressure sodium is history for the most part. The key issue for astronomers is skyglow not spectra thanks to the way that light scatters and how skyglow is created.

lunatic; the lights sound like the ongoing ESB retrofit has reached you; the ESB have been installing those for DLR for a couple of years now. I'd be interested in seeing a pic of the lights though.

albertw wrote:

carl o beirnes wrote:It was only then I told the lads that I was an astronomer and they told me about your legal right to have the light deflected from your property. Interesting or what.

Can you get me a legal reference or precedent for that? No one in any council or the DOE that I've spoken to is aware of it

As I said he just told me about it. I didn't go looking for information on line ,If I ever see him again I will ask him about it.

Carl

carl o beirnes wrote:As I said he just told me about it. I didn't go looking for information on line ,If I ever see him again I will ask him about it.[/quote]

Cool. If you do manage to meet him again it would be very useful to know.

Cheers,
~Albert