Agree strongly with the leaflet idea!!


I'm hoping to introduce as many people as I can to the delights of the celestial sphere myself this year. (I've already notched up 7 so far) but hope to expand considerably on this.
I will probably be going about this in a fairly amateurish way and more than likely pretty much on my own. (Haven't been able to track down other stargazers in the Alice Springs area, YET)

It has occurred to me however that once I've got a captive audience, it would be nice to be able to give people some information regarding the negative aspects of light pollution and various innocuous ways to reduce it, though not in a "preachy" way.
A leaflet would be a great way to do this .
Sadly, I've not noticed anything of this sort being available on the IYA web sites. (Or am I missing it?)

I'd already decided to write one myself so I would have something on hand to give to people looking through my scope, but to be brutally honest, I'm finding it difficult to come up with anything informative and coherent.

Aren't we missing a golden opportunity here?


We want to show people the joys and relevance of the stars above them and yet, it seems to me that we are not using this golden opportunity to inform them about the greatest enemy that the celestial wonders have -
Bloody light pollution!

If anyone has any ideas or links that they would care to send me, I would be most grateful.
If not, can someone more skilled come up with something on the subject that could be printed out.
PLEASE!