[Eratóstenes 2010] Join the 6th worldwide GLOBE at Night 2011 campaign: Feb. 21 - March 6

Dom Feb 20 14:43:53 ART 2011

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From: Constance Walker <cwalker en noao.edu>
Date: Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:34 PM
Subject: Join the 6th worldwide GLOBE at Night 2011 campaign: Feb. 21 -
March 6
To: Connie Walker <CWalker en noao.edu>

*Please post, promote or participate in the upcoming worldwide light
pollution monitoring campaign, GLOBE at Night....(Thank-you!)*

*1) Shorter Ad: *

*Less of Our Light for More Star Light*

Join the 6th worldwide GLOBE at Night 2011 campaign: Feb. 21 - March 6

*What:* The Globe at Night Campaign

*When:* 8pm to 10pm local time, February 21 - March 6, 2011

*Where: *Everywhere

*Who: *Everyone

*How:* See http://www.globeatnight.org

GLOBE at Night encourages citizen-scientists worldwide to record the
brightness of the night sky. During 2 winter/spring weeks of moonless
evenings, children and adults match the appearance of a constellation (Orion
in February/March and Leo and Crux in March/April) with 7 star charts of
progressively fainter stars found at www.globeatnight.org. They then submit
their choice of star chart on-line with their date, time and location to
help create a light pollution map worldwide.

The GLOBE at Night 2011 campaign dates are February 21 – March 6 (worldwide)
and March 22 – April 4 (for the Northern Hemisphere) and March 24 – April 6
(for the Southern Hemisphere). 52,000 measurements have been contributed
from more than 100 countries over the last 5 years of two-week campaigns,
thanks to everyone who participated!

This year children and adults can submit their measurements in real time if
they have a smart phone or tablet. To do this, you can use the web
application at www.globeatnight.org/webapp/. With smart phones and tablets,
the location, date and time are put in automatically. And if you do not have
a smart phone or tablet, there are user-friendly tools on the GLOBE at Night
report page to find latitude and longitude.

Through GLOBE at Night, students, teachers, parents and community members
are amassing a data set from which they can explore the nature of light
pollution locally and across the globe. Please make a difference and join
our efforts in 2011. For activity packets, one-page flyers and postcards
advertising the campaign, visit www.globeatnight.org/pdf/.

*2) Longe**r Ad: *

*Less of Our Light for More Star Light*

Join the 6th worldwide GLOBE at Night 2011 campaign: Feb. 21 - March 6

With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban
dwellers have never experienced the wonderment of pristinely dark skies and
maybe never will. This loss, caused by light pollution, is a concern on many
fronts: safety, energy conservation, cost, health and effects on wildlife,
as well as our ability to view the stars. Even though light pollution is a
serious and growing global concern, it is one of the easiest environmental
problems you can address on local levels.

Participation in the international star-hunting campaign, GLOBE at Night,
helps to address the light pollution issue locally as well as globally. This
year, 2 sets of campaigns are being offered. For the first campaign from
February 21 through March 6, 2011, everyone all over the world is invited to
record the brightness of the night sky. The second campaign runs from March
22 through April 4 in the Northern Hemisphere and March 24 through April 6
in the Southern Hemisphere. The campaign is easy and fun to do. First, you
match the appearance of the constellation Orion in the first campaign (and
Leo or Crux in the second campaign) with simple star maps of progressively
fainter stars found <http://www.globeatnight.org/observe_magnitude.html>.
Then you submit your measurements <http://www.globeatnight.org/report.html>,
including the date, time, and location of your comparison. After all the
campaign’s observations are submitted, the project’s organizers release a
map of light-pollution levels worldwide. Over the last five annual 2-week
campaigns, volunteers from more than 100 nations contributed 52,000
measurements, one third of which came from last year’s campaign.

To learn the five easy steps to participate in the GLOBE at Night program,
see the GLOBE at Night website <http://www.globeatnight.org/>. You can
listen to last year’s 10-minute audio podcast on light pollution and GLOBE
at Night<http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/02/03/february-3rd-the-globe-at-night-campaign-our-light-or-starlight/>.
Or download a 45-minute
powerpoint<http://www.globeatnight.org/files/NSN_GaN_2011_slides.ppt>
 and accompanying
audio<http://www.globeatnight.org/files/NSN_GaN_2011_audio.mp3>.
GLOBE at Night is also on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/GLOBEatNight>
 and Twitter <http://twitter.com/GLOBEatNight>.

The big news is that children and adults can submit their measurements in
real time if they have a smart phone or tablet. To do this, you can use the web
application <http://www.globeatnight.org/webapp/>. With smart phones and
tablets, the location, date and time are put in automatically. And if you do
not have a smart phone or tablet, there are user-friendly tools on the GLOBE
at Night report page to find latitude and longitude.

For activities that have children explore what light pollution is, what its
effects are on wildlife and how to prepare for participating in the GLOBE at
Night campaign, see the Dark Skies Rangers
activities<http://www.darkskiesawareness.org/DarkSkiesRangers>.
Monitoring our environment will allow us as citizen-scientists to identify
and preserve the dark sky oases in cities and locate areas where light
pollution is increasing. All it takes is a few minutes during the 2011
campaign to measure sky brightness and contribute those observations
on-line. Help us exceed the 17,800 observations contributed last year. Your
measurements will make a world of difference.

*Star Maps:*  http://www.globeatnight.org/observe_magnitude.html

*Submitting Measurements:*
http://www.globeatnight.org/report.html<http://www.globeatnight.org/report.html>

*GLOBE at Night:* http://www.globeatnight.org/

*Audio Podcast:*
http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/02/03/february-3rd-the-globe-at-night-campaign-our-light-or-starlight/<http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/02/03/february-3rd-the-globe-at-night-campaign-our-light-or-starlight/%0A%0A>

*Powerpoint:* http://www.globeatnight.org/files/NSN_GaN_2011_slides.ppt

*Accompanying Audio:*
 http://www.globeatnight.org/files/NSN_GaN_2011_audio.mp3<http://www.globeatnight.org/files/NSN_GaN_2011_audio.mp3>

*Facebook:* http://www.facebook.com/GLOBEatNight

*Twitter:* http://twitter.com/GLOBEatNight

*Web App for Reporting:* http://www.globeatnight.org/webapp/

*Dark Skies Activities: *http://www.darkskiesawareness.org/DarkSkiesRangers/

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Constance E. Walker, Ph.D.
director, GLOBE at Night campaign (www.globeatnight.org)
chair, International Dark-Sky Association Education Committee
chair, IYA2009 Dark Skies Awareness Cornerstone Project
member, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Board of Directors
associate scientist & senior science education specialist, NOAO

National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
950 N. Cherry Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85719 USA
520-318-8535
cwalker en noao.edu
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Beatriz Garcia
ITeDAM-CONICET-CNEA-UNSAM
UTN Facultad Mendoza, Lab. Pierre Auger
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