IAU COMMISSION 50
Protection of Existing and Potential
Observatory Sites
President: Dr. Richard Wainscoat (U.S.A.; rjw@ifa.hawaii.edu).*
Organizing Committee: Dr. Carlo
Blanco (Italy), Dr. Dave Crawford (USA), Dr. Magarita Metaxa (Greece),
Dr. Malcolm G. Smith (Past President),
Prof. Woody Sullivan (USA) (Past President)
For e-mail addresses and further personal details, visit http://www.iau.org/cgi-iau/iau_mem.cgi
{*Incoming President, following the death of Hugo Schwarz
and following elections by the OC of Commission 50 and approval by
Division XII.}
General Information
Observation is the lifeblood of astronomy. Nowadays astronomers observe the Universe at all wavelengths, across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. But increasingly the view is cluttered by human-generated interference of different kinds, such as light pollution, radio interference and space debris. Commission 50, which was established in 1973, has as its mission the protection of existing and potential observatory sites on the Earth and in space.
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