IAU Commission 50 meeting in Prague, Czech Republic
"Triennial Review of the Protection of Astronomical Sites against
Light Pollution and Radio -Frequency Interference"
IAUXXIV, Prague, Czech Republic
Division XII/Commission 50
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
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Session 1:
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Business, Educational Outreach & Monitoring Programs
"Education and Outreach for Dark Skies - 2006-2009"
John Percy (University of Toronto, Canada; .pdf:
92KB)
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"Education and Control of
Light Pollution - Division XII's Commissions 46 and 50 Making an Impact
in
Chile"
Malcolm G. Smith (AURA-NOAO-CTIO, IDA: .ppt:3.8MB)
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"Recent Progress on a Second World Atlas of the Night-Sky
Brightness"
Pierantonio Cinzano ( .pdf:13.1MB
.pdf1;
pdf2)
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"Digital Imaging Phetometry with
Common Cameras - Methods, Results and Perspectives."
Jenik Hollan (N. Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium in
Brno, Czech Republic; .pdf:11.1MB)
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"A Low-cost, Web-Based, Sky-Brightness-Monitoring System"
Dan McKenna (University of Arizona, U.S.A - Steward Observatory
Engineering
and Technical Services - Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope Project;
.ppt:14.2MB)
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Session 2:
Protection
of "Class A" Optical/IR Observatory Sites
"Mauna Kea and Haleakela:
Protection from Light Pollution"
Richard J. Wainscoat (University
of Hawaii, U.S.A.; .ppt:31.6MB)
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<>"Protection
of Exisiting and Potential Observatory Sites in Northern Chile"
Hugo E. Schwarz (SOAR-CTIO-NOAO-AURA, Chile; .ppt:8.7MB)#
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"Protection of Exisiting and Potential Observatory Sites in the
Southwestern United States,
with particular emphasis on Mount Graham, Arizona"
Richard F. Green (LBT, U.S.A.;
ppt:47.7MB)
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"Protection of Observatory Sites on La Palma"
Javier Diaz C. (OTPC - Sky Protection Unit, Spain; .ppt:37.8MB)
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"The Sky of San Pedro Martir Protected by Law" (late
contribution)
David Hariart, Mauricio Reyes & Rafael Costero (UNAM, Mexico; .ppt:4.5MB)
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Session 3:
"Protection of
Major Sites for Radio Astronomy"
"Spectrum Management for
Astronomy - IUCAF and Commission 50"
Wim van Driel (IUCAF/Paris
Observatory, France; .ppt:4.3MB)
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"Protecting ALMA"
Eduardo Hardy (NRAO, Chile; .ppt:14.2MB)
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"Radio-Quiet Zones, With Special Emphasis on the SKA"
Tasso Tzioumis (ATNF, CSIRO, Australia; IUCAF; .ppt:4.1MB)
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(This session concluded with a discussion of a. the exact future
role of Commission 50 in Protecting Radio-Astronomy sites and
b. the ITU's potential interest in extending its regulation of
use of frequencies extending into the IR and optical
c. the potential for closer co-ordination between Div X's working Group
on RFI mitigation and Div XII's Commission 50)
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Session 4:
"Some Global
Perspectives"
"Some Possible Effects of Global
Warming on Astronomical Observations"
Derek McNally (University of
Hertfordshire, U.K.; .pdf:.3MB)
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"OECD Global Science Forum"
Ron Ekers (CSIRO, Australia; .ppt:.2MB)
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(#Incoming Commission 50 President, Hugo Schwarz died in a motor-cycle
accident in Chile on
20th October 2006; See IAU IB99 for an obituary.)
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IAU Working
Group Meeting in Sydney, Australia
"Controlling Light Pollution"
IAUXXV, Sydney, Australia
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.
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Session 1:
Part 1. Update and lessons learned in IAU special areas
(Mauna
Kea, Northern Chile etc.).
9.00-9.15am "International Progress in Night-Sky
Protection
- an IDA Update".
Bob Gent ( abstract).
9.15-9.30am "Report from the Chilean OPCC".
Pedro Sanhueza ( abstract)
(.ppt
20.2MB).
9.30-9.45am "Report from Hawaii".
Richard Wainscoat ( abstract).
9.45-9.55am INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION BY ALL ATTENDEES
Part 2: Educational Outreach
9.55-10.10am "Light Pollution: International Educational Networking
and Resources".
John Percy. ( abstract).
10.10-10.25am "International Dark-Sky Education at NOAO:
Collaborative
Approaches."
Constance Walker et al. (abstract)
(.ppt
11.6MB).
10.25-10.30am Discussion.
10.30-11.00am POSTER BREAK. Main theme: "Controlling
Light
Pollution and protecting Astronomy in my Country."
Poster: "Prospects for a second World Atlas of the
Artificial
Night-Sky Brightness"
Pierantonio Cinzano. ( abstract).
{We need a ten-year baseline, with a set of new world-wide
measurements
in 2007-2008}.
Poster: "How Bright is that City? A Lighting Inventory of
Flagstaff,
Arizona"
Donald R. Davis et al. ( abstract)
(.ppt
2.7MB) .
Poster: "The Strategic Role of Communications Outreach in Modern
Astronomical Projects"
Esteban Illanes ( abstract).
Poster: "Integration of Dark-Sky Education Efforts with
Observatory
EPO Programs".
Constance Walker et al. (abstract)
(.ppt
5.4MB).
Poster: "Introducing Light Pollution Control to Central London?"
Malcolm Smith et al. (abstract)
(.ppt
0.4MB).
Poster: Panoramic Monitoring of Light Pollution and Lighting Code
Compliance:
La Serena and Coquimbo, Chile
Malcolm Smith, Hugo Ochoa and Pedro Sanhueza (abstract)
(.jpg
0.3MB ) .
Session 2:
11.00am-12.00pm
Program organized by Reg Wilson, to emphasize exterior illumination
design
and engineering.
11.00-11.20am: "Activity of the IESNA Cut-off Criteria Committee
and Light Pollution"
Reginald Wilson (abstract)
(.ppt
2.7MB)
(Consultant to City of Sydney, the Anglo-Australian Observatory
and the Astronomical Society of Australia; Board member, IDA)
11.20-11.40am: "Down-Under Lighting Standards and Aussie
Initiative".
Alec Fisher ( abstract
)
(.ppt
0.6MB)
(Chair of Standards Australia committees on "Road Lighting" and
on "Obtrusive Effects of Outdoor Lighting")
11.40am-12.00noon: "Dark Skies, Energy Efficiency, Perception of
Safety and Aesthetics".
Peter McLean ( abstract
)
(.ppt
4.8MB)
(Lighting Art and Science. Leading Australian Lighting
Designer.)
12.00-12.30pm INTERACTIVE DISCUSSIONS BY ALL ATTENDEES
12.30-2.00pm LUNCH BREAK
Session 3:
Room PM1 (for the afternoon - seating capacity 195)
2.00-3.30pm
2.00-2.15pm: "City Lighting and its Effect on Sky-Glow Generation"
Warren Julian (.ppt
4.2MB )
(Associate Professor and Assoc. Dean for General Studies, Faculty
of Architecture, The University of Sydney).
2.15-2.30pm: "Government Issues Related to the Control of Light
Pollution
at Major Observatories".
Peter Downes ( abstract
) (.ppt
2.0MB)
(Senior Policy Officer, Planning, NSW. Member of Working Group
on Regional Environment Plans for Siding Spring Observatory.)
2.30-2.45pm: "A Lighting Manufacturer's Problems in Meeting the
Requirements
Producing Dark-Sky-Friendly Luminaires"
Peter Portelli (abstract)
(.ppt
8.5MB)
(Technical Manager, Pierlite Pty Ltd - a Leading Aust. Luminaire
Manufacturer)
2.45-3.00pm: "Photometry of Floodlights and a Light-Pollution
Diagnostic".
Enrique Piraino (abstract)
(.ppt
0.8MB)
(Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Escuela de Ingenieria Electrica)
3.00-3.15pm: "The IDA's Model Lighting Ordinance".
David Crawford (abstract
)
(Fellow of the Illumination Engineering Society of North America.)
3.15-3.30pm: INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION BY ALL ATTENDEES.
3.30-4.00pm POSTER BREAK
Poster: "Monitoring the Artificial Night-Sky Brightness from the
ground - plans and progress".
Hugo Schwarz ( abstract
)
Session 4:
4.00pm-5.30pm
Part 1. Sky brightness:
4.00-4.15pm. "A Relation Between Light-Enery
Loss and Generation of Electrical Energy"
Syuzo Isobe ( abstract).
4.15-4.30pm "Light Pollution Monitoring
and
the Local Atmosphere".
Derek McNally ( abstract
.doc
0.1MB).
4.30-4.45pm Comments by Dave Crawford. (abstract).
5.15-5.30pm CONCLUSIONS AND PRIORITIES
FOR
ACTION: FINAL INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION BY ALL ATTENDEES.
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IAU Working-Group Conference in La Serena, Chile
March 5-7 2002
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IAU Commission 50
"Controlling Light Pollution"
Manchester, England August 11-14, 2000
Business/Regional Reports Meeting: Friday, August 11th.
Session 4. Committee Room? Roscoe 3.5.
(Discussion leaders/Session chairs and provisional times are in
parentheses)
Business session (45 mins):
- 1. Funding light pollution initiatives. (Chair - M. Smith:5mins).
- 1.1 Pierantonio Cinzano to speak for 3 mins.
- 1.2 General discussion. 2 mins
- 2. Future meetings: (Chair - M. Smith:10mins).
- 2.1 The science/engineering session on Monday August 14th. (2
mins)
- 2.2 A future IAU Colloquium on Site Protection (in Chile?).
(3mins)
- 2.3 Other relevant meetings associated with controlling light
pollution.
Dave Crawford, 2 mins).
- 2.4 CIE activities in Manchester, Toronto and elsewhere. (Duco
Schreuder,
3 mins).
- 3. Developing Education Networks and co-ordinating with the IDA
in
public
and educational outreach. (Margarita Metaxa: 10 mins)
- 4. International exchange of Model Lighting Ordinances,
Legislation
etc.(Dave.
Crawford: 10 mins)
- 5. Working with the Lighting Engineering Community. (Duco
Schreuder: 5
mins)
- 6. AOB, Summary (Chair - Malcolm Smith, 5 mins)
Oral and Poster session (45 minutes):
"Controlling Light Pollution in my part of the planet - Status and
Further
Steps."
Here we invite people to come along with poster presentations
covering
what is going on in their part of the world. Oral presentations can be
given to back up some of the posters. Pierantonio - if for any reason
we
do not have enough room for your posters (we shall make every effort to
find space), then we will have to show some at this session and the
rest
on the following Monday.
- 1. Africa (Bob Stobie - 5 mins)
- 1.1 "Brief sumary of work in Africa on Controlling Light
Pollution"
R.S.Stobie
(SAAO/SALT) Abstract: (Next e-mail? Bob? Are you out there?
- 2. Americas (Dave Crawford/MGS - 5 mins)
- 2.1 "The Chilean National Office for the Protection of Skies of
Northern
Chile" Pedro Sanhueza (OPCC-Chile), Rene Mendez (CTIO) and Malcolm
Smith
(AURA-O/CTIO). POSTER.
- 3. Asia (Isobe-san - 10 mins)
- 3.1 "Brief summary of work in Asia on Controlling Light
Pollution"
Isobe
Syuzo
- 3.2 "A Brief Summary of Work in Turkey on Light Pollution" Zeki
Aslan
(TUBITAK
National Observatory, Akdeniz University, Antalya
- 4. Europe (Pierantonio/Margarita/Nigel - 25 mins)
- 4.1 "Science or Fashion. Which determines the choice of Street
Lighting?"
Alan C. Pickwick. (Manchester Grammar School, UK - Chair of Education
Section,
RAS)
Abstract:In the UK, the first discharge lamps were used
for
street lighting in the 1930s. Low pressure mercury and low pressure
sodium
lamps were both in use by the 1940s. Astronomers have expressed a
preference
for lamps that emit narrow spectral lines as these can be filtered out
at the telescope. What sort of lighting would you expect to predominate
in the UK today?
- 4.2 "Brief summary of work in Portugal on
Light Pollution
Control" J. Pereira
Osorio (Univ. do Porto, Portugal)
Abstract: The population of Portugal is mainly
concentrated
close to the sea. Therefore, the mountains, located in the interior,
are
not much affected by light pollution. Although studies or measures to
control
light pollution were never activated, the recognition of the economic
benefits
of using adequate illumination systems brought a considerable
improvement
in recent years. This may also be facilitated by the present population
transfer from the center of big towns to their surroundings.
- 4.3
"Brief summary of work in Spain on Light Pollution Control"
Javier
Diaz Castro (OTPC-IAC, Tenerife, Spain)
Abstract: The main part of this presentation will deal
with
recent work in adapting outdoor lighting in La Palma and Tenerife. The
Spanish Parliament has agreed to study the light pollution problem. A
study
commission will be set up. At the end of this year the Government of
Barcelona
is expected to pass a law on control of light pollution.
- 4.4
"Introduction to work in Italy on Light Pollution Control"
Dr. Pierantonio
Cinzano (Univ. di Padova, Italy) (Includes reference to Pierantonio's
posters.)
- 4.5 "Update on work in Holland on Light Pollution Control" Duco
Schreuder
(CIE)
- 4.6 POSTER: "Notes on using ULOR vs UWLR ratios". Javier
Diaz-Castro
(OTPC-IAC,
Tenerife, Spain) {ULOR=Upward Light Output Ratio, upward flux/total
lamp
flux. UWLR=Upward Waste Light Ratio}
- 4.7 POSTER: "A Schools Initiative Leading to a Proposal for a
Law in
the
Parliament of Catalonia" Rosa M. Ros (Technical University of Barcelona)
Abstract: In 1998 the group "Cel Fosc" (Dark Sky)
started
an action in Catalonia schools. The original proposal was to prepare a
Map of Light Pollution of Catalonia with the co-operation of school
students
and teachers. This initiative has become a proposal for a Law in the
Parliament
of Catalonia next September 2000. The objective of this poster is to
explain
the process carried out and the following actions (school programs),
which
will be organized to continue in this field.
Science/Engineering Meeting: Monday, August 14th.
Sessions 1 and 2. Moseley Theatre.
"Controlling Light Pollution - science and engineering."
(Chair
- M.Smith. Sessions 1 and 2).
- Africa (Bob Stobie: 20 mins)
- "Light Pollution Control at the site of the Southern African
Large
Telescope
(SALT)" - Bob Stobie - 20 mins.
Americas (55 mins)
- "Highlights and low lights - Recent Progress at the
International
Dark-Sky
Association." Dave Crawford - 20 mins.
- "Two Educational Outreach Programs in Northern Chile" Malcolm
Smith -
10
mins.
- "Protecting the night skies in Southern Arizona - The new
outdoor
lighting
code" Don Davis - 15 mins.
- "Converting the Garstang code into Fortran/C". Doug Miller and
Don
Davis.
(10 mins.)
- Asia(Isobe-san - 20 mins)
- "A relation between light energy loss and electric energy usage
in each
electric supply company." Isobe Syuzo - 20 mins.
- Europe (Pierantonio/Margarita/Nigel - 60 mins)
- "Monitoring sky brightness with satellites: the first World
Atlas".
Pierantonio
Cinzano - 30 mins.
- "Status of the LP Internet Forum in Greece". Margarita Metaxa -
15 mins.
- "Focus on the Lighting Engineering Industry - next steps for
the
IAUWG".
Nigel Pollard - 15 mins.
msmith@noao.edu
