Images.

Maps of light pollution produced by Cinzano et al.:

Images from the International Dark Sky Association:

"Astronomy Picture of the Day - 11-27-00 giving an (uncriticized) world-wide view of upwardly-directed (largely wasted) light (which costs thousands of millions of dollars a year to produce).   Click on the image to download a ~500k higher-resolution image and move the sliders to find your part of the world.


Last revised:  16th July, 2004