Friday, June 19, 2020

Panel discussion about light pollution and dark skies

A while back I was invited to be part of a panel discussion titled "Light Pollution & the Dark Sky Movement". Check it out:


[d]arc thoughts: Episode 4 | Light Pollution & the Dark Sky Movement from [d]arc media on Vimeo.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Loss of the Night app video tutorials

A group of undergraduate students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute recently produced tutorial videos for using the Loss of the Night app. They made separate videos for the Android and iOS versions. Feel free to share them!


Android:





iOS:



Big thanks to Aaron, Kai, Ryan, and Vinit for producing these videos!

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Removing natural light from nighttime satellite images

My student Jacqueline Coesfeld recently developed an analysis that will be interesting for readers of the blog who work with satellite data. I summarized it in a series of tweets. You can click on the tweet to read the thread, or see the unrolled version here.