The Lighting Blog : Beautiful Night Sky Photography by Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan |
Image Courtesy : Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan from skyglowproject
The Lighting Blog : Beautiful Night Sky Photography by Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan |
The reason why I write this blog is to make an awareness to my readers ,especially lighting designers and architects all around world, about the importance of reducing skyglow/Light pollution in city’s.
Before we start reading this interesting topic ,we need to understand what is skyglow and Light Pollution. As usual,i don’t want my valuable readers to get bored of subjects that not in their interests but its also my duty to provide every information related to the topic here.So if you find its interesting and would like to read more,than click on the Orange color texts below .
The Lighting Blog : Beautiful Night Sky Photography by Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan |
What is Light Pollution ?
what is skyglow?
“Light Pollution, also known as Skyglow, may not appear to be the most urgent problem facing the planet, but it may be the most indicative of humanity’s growing separation from nature.”
The Lighting Blog : Beautiful Night Sky Photography by Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan |
I personally never seen an clear sky at night as shows in the picture above. I am sure, most of us never seen it because of the skyglow /Light Pollution . Imagine if our city have clean sky view like that. Now i know what you are thinking 😊, yes those are real images not Photoshop. Earlier, I am curious about and thought that those images are Photoshop and no place in the world have the view of sky like that . But after reading several articles and info from good websites like Skyglowproject and Dark sky etc… i got to know those are real and not camera tricks .
The Lighting Blog :Beautiful Dubai with and without Light Pollution/Skyglow |
Few years back for one of my Client in Dubai, wants to get LEED Gold certificate (60 -79 Points) for his building . Hence i got to read and research more about LEED certification ,light pollution etc…i am so happy to know that developers,government etc are taking . Avoiding light pollution is only one of many standards by USGBC to get certified .See the above image of Dubai that showing two different scenes ‘with and without’ Light Pollution .Just for Illustration Purpose Only.
UAE from Space |
The Lighting Blog : Beautiful Night Sky Photography by Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan |
The Lighting Blog : Beautiful Night Sky Photography by Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan |
The issue of light pollution was characterised as the easiest pollution problem to solve.
Associations like ‘The International Dark-Sky Association‘ , ‘Skyglow Project‘ etc.. and government organisations from different parts of the world give importance and taking initiative to solve light pollution issues. Hats off to Dubai-UAE for the efforts taken to reduce light Pollution.
The Lighting Blog : Beautiful Night Sky Photography by Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan |
Image & Resource Courtesy : Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan from skyglowproject
Resource Courtesy :Dark Sky.Org
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