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
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.
Light Trespass
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
In 2008 Bryce Astronomy:
91formal presentations
31,000 contacts (15,450 people)
~$850k to local economy!
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.
Light means:
Safety
Money
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
Shrinking telescopes
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)
218ft 2
116ft 2
101ft 2
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?
Celebrate darkness
Close blinds at night
Upgrade your lights
Request & support lighting ordinances
Get your money back!
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