Light pollution in Australia, standard

[bojan]

I just received the notice from Ballaarat Municipal observatory..
It seems there will be review of the AS 4248_1997 standard, related to light pollution (Draft will be available for download from April 6th, from here)

I also found interesting paper on the subject here:
https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94241/

It may be worth a try to have a look at this and possibly contribute....

[Wavytone]

IMHO light should be treated as pollution and dealt with as such under the Environmental Protection Act. That's the only legislation that appears to have any teeth in the sense of being immediately enforceable - by the police if necessary.

Until then councils, developers, hotels and resorts will continue their blatant disregard of standards, the building code and "codes of practice", and continue the destruction of the night-time sky.

Sadly the advent of LED lighting and its increased electrical efficiency with lower operating costs have resulted in substantial and unnecessary increases in light levels across the spectrum, and this needs to be stopped.

[raymo]

Sadly Bojan, the majority of people couldn't care less about LP. My niece
came from London for a visit some time ago, and we went to my daughter's place in the middle of nowhere. She saw this great swathe across the sky
and said "what the heck is that"? She'd never seen the Milky Way before.
Sad