Dark sky locations, such as Rainwater Observatory in French Camp, Mississippi, are rare remaining areas in the Southeastern United States where astronomers can conduct observations and imaging without interference from artificial light pollution; these sites are increasingly valuable for scientific research and public education, and the solution to light pollution is not reducing light but properly shielding it to direct it where it belongsβdownward toward the ground rather than upward into the sky.
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"This is one of the last remaining dark spots left in the Southeastern United States."Added:
This is one of the last remaining dark spots left in the southeastern United States.
We have people here from around the country and they set up their own equipment up on the hill and they do observing and do imaging.
We'd love to use your image and and and make you a co-author of our paper that we're going to write about it if we can use it. I said, "What amateur would turn that down?"
Just looking at the night sky, the problem is not less [music] light, the light just needs to be shielded and on the ground where it belongs.
>> [music] [music] >> We're doing our best here to protect [music] that.
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