CityKin

This time of year, we spend a lot of time outside in the dark. It is unavoidable when dusk is 5pm. And one of the things that makes this s...

Walkway across Vine Street to Zoo is fun:   Madcap Puppets always put on a great show. This one with black light on the puppets and the pup...

We have, overtime, overlighted everything in America. ... Anything over two (footcandles) is a waste of money - Howard Brandston , Lighting ...

The International Dark-Sky Association has just completed a long process in which they have written a model ordinance that can be adopted by...

I've always felt like our government was raining it down upon us, but never knew why. Finally, we get a solid scientific answer to the q...

We've come full circle. Mike has a great post below about the modern problem of stray light obscuring the night sky. A century and a qua...

  Good Article in the non-printed Christian Science Monitor a few days ago: ...the National Park Service estimates that two-thirds of Ameri...

A good chance to try to introduce some astronomy concepts to kids: Despite the light pollution, Venus and Jupiter have been extremely easy t...

What was that eerie cloud? Unfortunately, because of the tremendous increase in light pollution over the past quarter century, the majority ...

A great article about the city of Tuscon, and how they have regained the night sky. With a metro area of over 900,000 people, can you believ...

..By switching to LED fixtures that save energy and preserve the night sky:   Ann Arbor is changing city street lights to power saving LEDs....

Like many Cincinnati children, I was very fond of the Planetarium at the old Natural History Museum on Gilbert Avenue. I had assumed they we...

Our family saw dramatic shooting stars last week while out of town. At the time, I didn't realize that it was the middle of the Perseid ...