Light pollution is one of the biggest problems amateur astronomers face. We often drive an hour or more out of town to get away from the light dome caused by street lights, porch lights, stadium lights, advertising lights, and just too many $#@! lights. Fortunately, at least for us, Artificial Lighting At Night (ALAN) has been shown to be detrimental to far more than just the night sky. That means we have many allies in the fight against it. One of those allies is Misty Bowman, local advocate for the organization DarkSky Oregon and its parent organization, DarkSky International. Plus our new mayor, Kaarin Knudson, is on board with a proposal to pursue a lights-out campaign during bird migration season.

At our March Meeting, Misty will talk about the problem and the solutions that people are working on to reduce light pollution locally and worldwide, and she’ll also talk about ways that the Eugene Astronomical Society can participate in those solutions. Come hear what we can do to help preserve our beautiful dark sky.

At the meeting Ken Martin will also provide a slide show of the month’s astrophotos from other EAS members.

The meeting is at 7:00 on Thursday, March 19th at the Eugene Science Center planetarium, 2300 Leo Harris Parkway in Eugene (behind Autzen Stadium).