Mason Space Day 2024

This year light pollution was added as a topic for the presentations at George Mason’s Space Day. Home to the second largest on-campus observatory on the East coast, light pollution affects the professional astronomers studying and conducting research at George Mason University.

Full presentation of speakers at this year’s Mason Space Day.

Eileen Kragie of Dark Sky Friends and Tom Reinert of DarkSky International talk about the impacts of light pollution and how campuses, as small cities, contribute to the scale of light pollution in their communities. And the solutions.

Eileen and Tom’s presentation begin at 1:59:07. Dr Peter Plavchan’s immediately follows. He describes the how bright a 100 watt light is in comparison to the light of a full moon.