With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban dwellers have never experienced
the wonderment of pristinely dark skies and maybe never will. Light pollution is obscuring people’s
long-standing natural heritage to view stars. The GLOBE at Night program is an international
citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by encouraging
everyone everywhere to measure local levels of night sky brightness and contribute observations
online to a world map. All it takes is a few minutes to participate between 8-10 pm, February 21
through March 6. Your measurements will make a world of difference.”