Village approves anti-light pollution legislation and ponders limiting the number of animals homeowners can keep.
Lloyd Harbor stargazers rejoice. The village Board of Trustees passed a new law to prevent light pollution and disruptive outdoor lights at their most recent meeting Monday night. After the unanimous vote, Village Trustee Leland Deane slumped back in his chair as other board members patted him on the back. Deane had worked on a light pollution proposal for years before he was elected to the board. "We are the pocket of darkness" for stargazers, Deane said before the vote. The new law would help protect one of the darkest night skies east of the Hamptons, he added. The board saw a presentation in January by Susan Harder of the Long Island-based Dark Sky Society, a public advocacy group. She said bad lighting causes a host of problems …
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Light pollution is a term used to define nighttime artificial light that is misdirected, misplaced, unshielded, excessive or unnecessary.
With no light pollution and fair weather, a stargazer should be able to see as many as 7,000 stars with the unaided eye. In Huntington, most don't see anywhere near that number. As a general rule, if you can't see the Milky Way on a clear summer night, then fewer than 250 stars are visible in your area, mostly because of light pollution, according to Dan Rozell of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Air Resources in DEC's Region 1 office in Stony Brook. Light pollution is a term used to define nighttime artificial light that is misdirected, misplaced, unshielded, excessive or unnecessary. That's according to Susan Harder of the Long Island-based Dark Sky Society, a public advocacy group. She made a …
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