Preserving Dark Skies in National Parks for Future Generations

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...20518202d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #182.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.387

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The United States National Park Service (NPS) has formed a team of professional scientists and naturalists to monitor the effects of light pollution in parks throughout the country, from sources both within and outside the parks. The NPS Night Sky Team is using a wide field CCD camera to quantify sky quality by imaging the entire sky under varying optical extinction conditions.
A component of the program utilizes these images and other materials to convey the National Park Service mission of protecting the night sky "unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." This education outreach effort includes the dissemination of results from the research and monitoring, brochures for the general public, astronomy activity guide for grades 6-12 emphasizing light pollution and dark skies as one of the national parks' primary resources, and astronomy activities for the public in parks, often in collaboration with local amateur astronomy groups. Other potential accomplishments include the location of observatories in parks, a website for the Night Sky Team, and the instigation of lighting retrofits within parks.
This program is funded primarily by the United States Department of Interior, National Park Service

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