GAW, I love men in cagoules!
[so what's a cagoule, me dear Max]
Judy
2009/10/24 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> [from the times online]
>
> "Light pollution from sodium lamps in the city “is a terrible spoiler for
> astronomers”, he said. “On the clearest night in London you might be able
> to
> pick out only 200 stars.”
>
> In Galloway Forest Park about 7,000 fill the sky. Weather permitting.
>
> Sheltered by a stand of pines near the small town of Newton Stewart, Dr
> Bellerby
> and his friends feel the benefit. The observatory sits on the edge of 320
> square
> miles of parkland in which there are only 414 “points of light”, or houses.
> When
> the Forestry Commission asked householders for their help in the dark-sky
> campaign, all but three agreed to douse unnecessary lights. It probably
> helps
> that, according to legend at least, astronomy is a secret passion for many
> locals.
>
> A couple of years ago, sensors that count vehicles registered a
> surprisingly
> high volume of traffic heading into the forest park in the darkest hours of
> night. The local constabulary, alerted to possible foul play, descended on
> a car
> park by Clatteringshaws Loch. They found not drug dealers or sheep rustlers
> but
> a group of guys in cagoules and clutching Thermos flasks, their telescopes
> trained on the Crab Nebula.
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