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Light Pollution: How High-Performance Luminaires Can Reduce It

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Christian Remande
Christian Remande*
Affiliation:
R-Tech, Rue de Mons, 3 - 4000 Liège, Belgium

Abstract

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In 1984 the International Commission on Lighting (CIE) set up a Technical Committee TC 4.21 to study interference by artificial light in astronomical observation. The resulting document “Guidelines for minimizing sky glow” (CIE No. 126) complements previous CIE documents from 1978 and the joint CIE-IAU (International Astronomical Union) publication of 1984. In this paper, we demonstrate how high performance luminaires based on more global and pertinent criteria can significantly reduce sky glow.

Type
Part 2. Threats to Optical Astronomy
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 196: Preserving the Astronomical Sky , 2001 , pp. 49 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001