by admin | Jul 14, 2016 | News, Night Skies
With eyes on the stars – and on the city’s future prosperity – the Wimberley Dark Sky Committee has been launched to attain official International Dark Sky Community status for Wimberley. “This is an initiative to protect our night skies,” Cathy Moreman, Executive...
by admin | Jul 8, 2016 | News, Night Skies
We can see the Milky Way from Dripping Springs, but lights in Austin steal a piece of our sky,” Cindy Luongo Cassidy says looking out from the viewing deck of her personal observatory to the starry horizon. Nearby, her husband John tinkers with his large...
by admin | Jun 13, 2016 | News, Night Skies
Members of Keep Utopia Beautiful recently joined Hill Country Alliance program director Cliff Kaplan to encourage Uvalde County Commissioners to support the preservation of dark skies in the area by reducing light pollution. Kaplan, along with Claudia Rogers and... by admin | Jun 2, 2016 | Night Skies
For the love of lightning bugs, experts ask people to turn off as many exterior lights as possible during peak mating months. Artificial lights have eradicated large populations of lightning bugs in East Tennessee and across the developed world. “Light...
by admin | Apr 13, 2016 | News, Night Skies
Light pollution not only effects our ability to see the stars at night, but studies show it can also have negative effects our health, wildlife and the economy. This article from MNN discusses the effects of light pollution and what communities around the world,...
by admin | Mar 20, 2016 | News, Night Skies
Barbara Baggett of Stars Over Utopia, a Keep Utopia Beautiful project,will present an educational program at the Utopia Senior Center on April 1 at 11:00 am. for a potluck lunch. The program is a collaboration of the Hill Country Alliance and International Dark Skies...
