From eso.org
World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
5 5
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and...
#eso #chile #Paranal #science #Astrodon #darkskies #pollution #Environment #megaproject #observatories
10h ago
From biomedcentral.com
A hyperspectral open-source imager (HOSI) - BMC Biology
1 1
Background The spatial and spectral properties of the light environment underpin many aspects of animal behaviour, ecology and evolution, and quantifying this information is crucial in fields ranging from optical physics, agriculture/plant sciences, human psychophysics, food science,...
#ALAN #imaging #Hyperspectral #lightpollution
on Thu, 5PM
Totality of Impact! - A Podcast Shedding the Light Only Where Needed
1 1
This month! We look at the Olympic's opening ceremony which featured a spectacular light show at the Eiffel Tower. We look at a student study that examined the impact of artificial grow lighting on stadium pitches. And SpaceX’s plan to deploy 7500 Gen2 Starlink satellites was approved by the US...
on Sep 5