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Jun 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007jbaa..117q.111m&link_type=abstract
Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.117, no.3, p.111-112
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In 2006 December, the BAA Campaign for Dark Skies (CfDS), in conjunction with the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), launched the first-ever Orion star count: a survey to evaluate light pollution in the United Kingdom. With the assistance of Callum Potter, website manager, and other officers of the CfDS, a webpage (www.britastro.org/starcount) dedicated to the project was established. People in the UK were asked to estimate the number of stars they could see with the naked eye within the constellation of Orion bordered by a rectangle of four bright stars (Orion's 'shoulders' and 'feet': stars, alpha, gamma, beta and kappa Orionis). The count included the three stars of Orion's Belt, but excluded the four 'corner' stars themselves (see Figure 1). Results were reported to the BAA either by post or by filling in an online form. Observations were made in the absence of moonlight when the sky was naturally dark during late December and January.
Lloyd D. D.
Miles Richard
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