An animated GIF clip from the time-lapse video SKYGLOW by Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinović
SKYGLOW is an ongoing crowdfunded project exploring light pollution and its impact on cities, as well as North America's endangered dark-sky locations. It is produced by photographers/filmmakers Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinović, in association with the International Dark-Sky Association.
The Kickstarter fundraising campaign generated significant publicity[1] and ended on May 9, 2015 as the fourth most successful project in the Photobooks category.[2]
SKYGLOW was featured on Season 6 of the Discovery Science show Outrageous Acts of Science.[3]
On December 5, 2015, Heffernan and Mehmedinović gave a sold out talk about SKYGLOW at The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, and previewed photos and video from their journeys.[4]
SKYGLOW photography and videos has been featured in numerous media outlets and popular culture, including a performance of The Rolling Stones' song Moonlight Mile[5] during their Zip Code Tour in 2015, Roger Waters at Desert Trip Indio, Cosmic Gate's music video for their single am2pm in 2016,[6]BBC Earth,[7] and the U.S. National Park Service as part of their official centennial celebration video.[8]
^"Two Guys Want to Win Back the Starry Skies Above L.A." LA Weekly.
^Kickstarter Top Funding
^Outrageous Acts of Science – SKYGLOW
^"SKYGLOW: Timelapse Photography and Film Screening". Annenberg Space for Photography.
^"Moonlight Mile" Performance by Mick Jagger & The Rolling Stones
Skyglow (or sky glow) is the diffuse luminance of the night sky, apart from discrete light sources such as the Moon and visible individual stars. It is...
SKYGLOW is an ongoing crowdfunded project exploring light pollution and its impact on cities, as well as North America's endangered dark-sky locations...
light-polluted skies and that 23 percent of the world's land area is affected by skyglow. The area affected by artificial illumination continues to increase. A...
moonlight, skyglow, and light pollution. The International Dark-Sky Association has been vocal in championing the cause of reducing skyglow and light pollution...
Senator Joel Anderson. In 2015, Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic co-founded SKYGLOW, a crowdfunded book and Blu Ray project to tackle the rising danger and...
both professional and amateur astronomers seek locations far from urban skyglow. The fact that the sky is not completely dark at night, even in the absence...
varied their paint schemes to suit differing flight conditions such as the skyglow over German cities, or the sands of the Mediterranean front. During and...
glare, and light directed into the night sky above the horizon causes skyglow. Lighting can also cause light trespass when it enters areas where unwanted...
point sources of light such as stars, except in regions with more intense skyglow due to light pollution, moonlight, auroras, and other sources of light...
starlight, airglow, and light pollution create the skyglow that dimly illuminates nighttime. The amount of skyglow increases each year due to artificial lighting...
effect accompanying a SAID. In August 2018, researchers determined that the skyglow of the phenomenon was not associated with particle precipitation (electrons...
night sky. It is used, typically by amateur astronomers, to quantify the skyglow aspect of light pollution and uses units of "magnitudes per square arcsecond"...
The comet hypothesis was further supported by the glowing skies (or "skyglows" or "bright nights") observed across Eurasia for several evenings after...
silhouetted against lights of a city. When partial blackouts were introduced towards the middle of 1942, skyglow continued to be a problem in coastal cities....
designed to block the sodium and mercury vapor light, and also block natural skyglow such as the auroral light. This allows observing nebulae from the city...
amateur astronomers as a sub-section of the BAA specialising in combatting skyglow. It is now open to non-members of the BAA, includes lighting engineers...
comets and stars are also used to measure the local level of artificial skyglow. One branch of amateur astronomy, amateur astrophotography, involves the...
The Annenberg Space for Photography SKYGLOW event at The Annenberg Photo Space in Los Angeles Established March 2009 (2009-03) Dissolved June 2020 (2020-06)...
that brightens the night sky. Types of light pollution which include: Skyglow, a hazy glow produced by the reflection water molecules in the air that...
cultural and economic reasons for concern about excessive light at night. Skyglow prevents large fractions of the Earth's population from viewing the Milky...
Retrieved 2008-08-31. Foderaro, Lisa (1989-04-05). "To many in North Salem, Skyglow Has No Romance". NYT. Retrieved 2008-08-31. Auchterlonie, Tom (2016-11-07)...
This increased light scattering within the atmosphere leads to increased skyglow. During bad weather such as heavy rain, snow or fog, this scattering can...
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