September's chapter meeting program: Conserving the Night Sky

With Bob Yoesle, Dark Sky Defenders

•What is light pollution?
•How does it affect us and the environment?
•What can be done to fix it?

I became hooked on astronomy after looking through my godfather’s telescope at craters on the Moon.

Seeing my amazement, my parents got me a small telescope for
Christmas, and later took me to a planetarium where I could experience what a dark night sky unencumbered by the bright suburban lights in the San Francisco Bay Area could look like. The following summer, while camping near Mt. Lassen in Northern California; we saw the real Milky Way and I was lost and mesmerized by the starry vastness of the universe.

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