Can light pollution be a good thing?

Dublinskywatch wrote:

I don't disagree with what you say Carl at all.
I have had my own inter actions with the local council as well and I am quite sure that they are aware just how wasteful the situation is also.

I have lost many a good nights imaging to sky glow to my South which is the city and to my north which is the Airport. So I do agree with what you say. This was the same image only I converted it to greyscale.

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Hi all,

The thing about reducing light pollution is the cost involved in changing the setup for the government and the tax payer it would cost millions to implement. But on the other hand it would save hundreds of millions each year on energy bills. But our government don't like good ideas. Do you remember E voting that went very well at a cost of millions and now just sitting in a warehouse somewhere. We all remember the millennium clock another few mill down the drain enough said I could go on but what is the point. I see some countries in europe trying to make changes on light pollution laws but I don't think Ireland ever will unfortunately.

Carl O'Beirnes,
Balbriggan Observatory (MPC# J09),
Co Dublin,
Ireland.

Maybe not but lets keep banging away.
It'll be much harder now the arse has fallen out of the economy
to get them to 'replace' lighting...
eg..
spend money to save it.

Not with one budget upcoming...
and the second one in an election year.

No folks.
Whatever LP crap you have to deal with now the only thing you can
hope for is for your local councill to become so underfunded that
they cant get the money to pay for replacemnet bulbs when they blow.
And hey! It's working for me!!
My South aspect is now better as the lamp blew its light some weeks
ago but has not been replaced yet.
In fact 2 other lights out our front
( by the way I have a double whammy of a main road OUTSIDE our
estate that has more lights (albethem FCO's)
Are blown.
So maybe in some respects the slump in funding is a good thing...
LOL

Crescent wrote:

My problem was it took me ages to find half the constellations because of the mass of stars which I can’t see from the city.

I had the opposite problem. I grew up in the country and the skies were pretty good. I was easily able to point out most of the constellations, but when I moved to Dublin I was lost. The constellations looked completely different and I could not longer pick them all out due to the "missing" stars.

The thing that makes me laugh is that the minister for the environment office in Dublin is the worst offender for light pollution in the city A photo from space proved that. And he was sitting in the audience when he was told.