Light Pollution: Responses and Remedies

by Bob Mizon

Light-pollution is the modern scourge of optical astronomy. More and more observing sites are being lost as the glare of city lighting blots out the night sky. Professional astronomical observatories are located far from cities, but amateur astronomers often do not have this luxury.This book considers the two available strategies open to astronomers - get rid of the light pollution by lobbying Authorities and Standards Organisations, and minimise its effects by using the correct instrumentation. The book contains an extensive detailed catalogue of deep-sky and other objects that - despite what one might believe - can be seen from variously light-polluted sites, for practical observers.

Genres: Crime, Astronomy

219 pages, Paperback

First published December 6, 2001

Reviews

[Kadri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful and interesting and gives some hope to those who are bothered by light pollution but don't want to stop observing the night sky.