. After driving for around five hours south in the pitch-black dark Nevada desert, a dome of hazy gold suddenly emerges on the horizon. Shortly, a road sign confirms that the Las Vegas is around 40 miles. Looking skyward, one can notice that the Big Dipper is difficult to find than it was sometimes ago. B. The artificial light, commonly known as light pollution that light up more than its intended target area; has become a serious matter in all over the country from last 20 years. In the suburbs, where over-lit shopping mall parking lots are the very common, just around 195 of the Milky Way’s 2,500 stars are visible on a clear night. Even hardly any can be seen from big cities. In most of the towns, rather big and small, street lights beam …show more content…
For some time, that darkness was frightened. “We were totally losing the night sky,” Jim Singleton of Tucson’s Lighting Committee said. Now, after retrofitting ineffective mercury lighting with low-sodium lights that obstruct light from “trespassing” into undesirable areas such as bedroom windows, and by doing away with some non-essential lights completely, now the city is softly glowing rather than beaming brightly. The same thing is happening in some of other states, even in Texas, which just passed a light pollution bill last year. “Astronomers can obtain what they require at the same time that citizens get what they need like safety, security and good visibility at night,” says McDonald Observatory’s Mark Adams, who provided testimony at the hearings for the bill. I. law enactment is not the only solution to the artificial light problems. Brian Greer, Central Ohio representative for the Ohio Light Pollution Advisory Council, believe that education is also very important. “There are few special situations where regulation is the only fix,” he further added. “But the vast majority of bad lighting is just the result of not knowing any better.” Some simple actions like substituting old bulbs and fixtures with well organized and better-designed ones can lead to a big difference in protecting the night