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- 1. Canvas of the CosmosByark Rangers Randy Dunning & Kevin
Poe D P Core of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) Crab Supernova (M1) NPS
photo by Dan Duriscoe Darkness is Beautiful
- 2. Comet NEAT Darkness is Beautiful Crab Supernova (M1)
- 3. Hercules Globular Cluster (M13) Darkness is Beautiful Comet
NEAT
- 4. Swan Nebula (M17) Darkness is Beautiful Hercules Globular
Cluster (M13)
- 5. Andromeda Galaxy (M31) Darkness is Beautiful Swan Nebula
(M17)
- 6. Orion Nebula (M42) Darkness is Beautiful Andromeda Galaxy
(M31)
- 7. Ring Nebula (M57) Darkness is Beautiful Orion Nebula
(M42)
- 8. Cigar Galaxy (M82) Darkness is Beautiful Ring Nebula
(M57)
- 9. Dumbbell Nebula (M27) Darkness is Beautiful Cigar Galaxy
(M82)
- 10. Sombrero Galaxy (M104) Darkness is Beautiful Dumbbell
Nebula (M27)
- 11. Whirlpool Galaxy & companion (M51) Darkness is
Beautiful Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
- 12. Darkness is Beautiful Whirlpool Galaxy & companion
(M51)
- 13. Saturn Darkness is Beautiful Hubble Ultra Deep Field
- 14. Jupiter Darkness is Beautiful Saturn
- 15. Mars Darkness is Beautiful Jupiter
- 16. Venus Darkness is Beautiful Mars
- 17. Mercury Darkness is Beautiful Venus
- 18. Sol Darkness is Beautiful Mercury
- 19. Moon Darkness is Beautiful Sol
- 20. Earth Darkness is Beautiful Moon
- 21. Darkness is Beautiful
- 22. If its rare...Capture it !And Charge Admission!
- P.T. Greatest Show ON Earth Barnum
So darkness is$ AND beautiful... Darkness is Beautiful
- 23. Defending Darkness Protecting darkness is hard Lake Mead
(ugly) Bryce (good) Yosemite (bad)
- 24.
- Laws end at boundaries(light transcends)
- Cant fence light(urban domes exceed 5,000m!)
- Education doesnt work on empty seats
- ONLYTourism gets the butts in the seats!
Photo by Jim Richardson Defending Darkness
- 25. Astronomy Tourism Sky City, AZ Observatory B&B, BC
Astronomers Inn, AZ Night Adventures, Red River, NM
- 26. Profitable Tourism isntmore people per day, but Increased
Length of Stay! Dark lovers stay overnight andeat bigger
breakfasts! - Kevin Greatest ShowFOREarth Poe Astronomy
Tourism
- 27. National Parks (the big guns of tourism) Yellowstone Death
Valley Bryce Canyon Chaco Culture Curecanti Yosemite Grand Canyon
Great Basin Virgin Islands Astronomy Tourism
- 31,000 contacts (15,450 people)
- 28. Astronomy Tourism 50 Telescopes! Constellation Tours! Real
Rocket Science! Ranger Assisted Astronaut Story Musgrave! Repairer
of the Hubble Telescope! 3000 Visitors! Astronomy Festival June
17-20, 2009! Join us for 9 th Annual Bryce Canyon
- 29.
Eat at Joes! Down pointing retrofit: -$1000 Monthly Rent+$15,000
Ammortized over 10yr lifespan -$8.33/month More light isnt always
safer & seldom necessary ProtectingAstro-Tourism
- 30.
- 50% wont see the Milky Way
- $2 billion lost in up light
- Even parks are getting brighter
Report from the Front Lines: Milky Way 5000+ ly Page, AZ 61 miles
(98 km) Cedar City & I-15 corridor 48 miles (72 km) St. George
78 miles (125 km)
Hooker 1917 (54ft 2 ) Hale 1948 (218ft 2 ) War Progress Report
Cedar City,UT Beaver, UT 2007 1948 147 200 Photo by Tyler
Nordgren
- 31. Its not! -The Loraxby Dr. Seuss Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Unless
Could we lose the Stars? At the rate we are going yes, its very
likely! War Progress Report
- 32. How do you care a whole awful lot?
- Request & support lighting ordinances
Terrible $43/yr Bad $32/yr Great $0/yr Good $11/yr Join the Fight
Against the Light! ProtectingAstro-Tourism Photo by Jim Richardson
Motion Sensor $10/yr