Mapping Light Pollution in Your Community part of Eyes in the Sky:GIT Projects & Activities:Light Pollution Mapping
Introduction Many people in the world have never seen the Milky Way sweeping across the sky. In fact, most of us are able to see only a dozen or so of the brightest stars in the sky and don't realize there ...

Mapping Light Pollution in Your Community part of Eyes in the Sky:GIT Projects & Activities:Light Pollution Mapping
Part 2: Use GIS to Make a Contour Map Make a table in Excel of the locations of your observations and the number of the map that matched your view of the constellation at each observation site. Use GIS to mark the ...

Mapping Light Pollution in Your Community part of Eyes in the Sky:GIT Projects & Activities:Light Pollution Mapping
Part 1: How Dark is the Sky? To collect the data you need to make your contour map, you will need to go out on one particular night to take measurements of the relative brightness of the night sky, using the ...