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  • In Portal, Arizona where Arizona Sky Villages is developing a community for fans of dark skies.  Homes have telescope domes on the roof and connections to a robotic telescope. Streets have names like "Milky Way."
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  • Residents of Cuba, Kansas gather to see the effects of lighting in their community of some 200 people.  The local utility company offered to help by turning out the lights in the whole town so that the contrast between normal street lighting and dark skies could be seen in this town in the sparsely populated area of north central Kansas. The gas station is on the left and the community hall is on the right.
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  • Residents of Cuba, Kansas gather to see the effects of lighting in their community of some 200 people.  The local utility company offered to help by turning out the lights in the whole town so that the contrast between normal street lighting and dark skies could be seen in this town in the sparsely populated area of north central Kansas. The gas station is on the left and the community hall is on the right.
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  • Retired Canadian businessman Jack Newton enjoys his house in Portal, Arizona where Arizona Sky Villages is developing a community for fans of dark skies.  Homes have telescope domes on the roof and connections to a robotic telescope.
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  • The Milky Way rising over Natural Bridges National Monument in the early morning. This park in southern Utah was the first Dark Sky Park in the United State, with environmental groups and various government bodies working together to tame light pollution so that the splendors of the night sky are preserved.
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  • Sandhill Cranes feed in one of the neighborhoods of Harmony, Florida.  The community uses street lighting with full cutoff fixtures so light remains low and environmentally friendly.  They advertise their dark skies as part of their appeal and even don't allow night tennis courts that would mar the night sky.
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  • Light from the nearby growing city of Moab fills the sky over Balanced Rock formation in Arches National Park. Park officials are worried about the growing effects of light pollution.
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  • A giant spotlight shining up from the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas pierces the night sky. Such lighting contributes to light pollution, and in particular can be a problem for bats, birds, moths and other insects attracted to the beam.
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  • A giant spotlight shining up from the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas pierces the night sky. Such lighting contributes to light pollution, and in particular can be a problem for bats, birds, moths and other insects attracted to the beam.
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  • Downtown main street of Liberal, Kansas sports new streetlights with old-time character, but which pour light out in all directions and up into the sky.  With no shielding the exposed globes cause much glare that makes seeing difficult.
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  • San Franciso and the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands.  Even though a relatively "green" city in a state that pays attention to night lighting, San Francisco is largely not different than an large urban area and puts out a lot of light into the night, creating a night light environment of its own.
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  • San Franciso and the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands.  Even though a relatively "green" city in a state that pays attention to night lighting, San Francisco is largely not different than an large urban area and puts out a lot of light into the night, creating a night light environment of its own.
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  • New York's Central Park shrouded in fog shows the extent of urban lighting in one of the world's major metropolitan areas.
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  • Night lighting at a ski resort contributes to light pollution
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  • Night lighting at a ski resort contributes to light pollution
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  • Night lighting at a ski resort contributes to light pollution
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  • Light pollution glow from Salt Lake City visible from the Bonneville Salt Flats over 100 miles away.
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  • Endangered sea turtles struggle ashore on Juno Beach, north of Palm Beach, Florida, to lay their eggs in the soft sands, impaired by the shore lighting that can scare them away.  Worse, when the baby turtles hatch they often become confused by the lighting and turn away from the sea, making them easy prey for predators.
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  • Mining mill in Utah lit up at night.
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  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
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  • Volunteer Brian Armstrong patrols downtown Tornonto before dawn, trying to rescue birds that have become trapped by the light and tall buildings.  This morning he rescued a Virginia Rail.  He was too late to save a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker.
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  • City lighting that is bad for light pollution because light goes out in all directions.
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
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  • Stars and the Milky Way above a hillside of Saguaro cactus east of Peridot, Arizona.
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  • Stars and the Milky Way above a hillside of Saguaro cactus east of Peridot, Arizona.
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  • Milky Way over the Flint Hills of Kansas
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  • Endangered sea turtles struggle ashore on Juno Beach, north of Palm Beach, Florida, to lay their eggs in the soft sands, impaired by the shore lighting that can scare them away.  Worse, when the baby turtles hatch they often become confused by the lighting and turn away from the sea, making them easy prey for predators.
    MM7509_20080515_4770-B.jpg
  • San Franciso and the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands.  Even though a relatively "green" city in a state that pays attention to night lighting, San Francisco is largely not different than an large urban area and puts out a lot of light into the night, creating a night light environment of its own.
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  • Los Angeles urban lighting threatens astronomy at Mount Wilson observatory in California
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  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
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  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
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  • Detroit from the air at night with lights on an empty parking lot.
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  • Michael Mesure and his volunteers from F.L.A.P. (Fatal Light Awareness Program) do their annual laying out of the birds that were killed running into downtown buildings in Toronto.  Birds confused by urban lighting become confused and trapped in the lighting of skyscrapers.
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
    MM7509_20080414_3767-B.jpg
  • Endangered sea turtles struggle ashore on Juno Beach, north of Palm Beach, Florida, to lay their eggs in the soft sands, impaired by the shore lighting that can scare them away.  Worse, when the baby turtles hatch they often become confused by the lighting and turn away from the sea, making them easy prey for predators.
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  • Endangered sea turtles struggle ashore on Juno Beach, north of Palm Beach, Florida, to lay their eggs in the soft sands, impaired by the shore lighting that can scare them away.  Worse, when the baby turtles hatch they often become confused by the lighting and turn away from the sea, making them easy prey for predators.
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  • Denver lit up at night with glow of light pollution, as seen from the foothills of the Rockie Mountains.
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  • Toronto seen at night from the CN Tower.
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  • Natural Bridges National Monument in southeast Utah is the first International Dark Sky Preserve.  Skies here are exceptionally dark and the Milky Way stands out as broad avenue in the sky.
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  • The Milky Way rises over the dark skies of the Flint Hills of Kansas.
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