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Thursday, Sep. 21, at the Belagaio Natural State Reserve, a day focused on protection and promotion of dark-sky areas

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Artificial light at night is an essential component of modern civilization, allowing nighttime activities in residential and industrial areas and insuring safety and security to citizens. At the same time, lighting deployed in excess with respects to actual needs determines negative impacts in various areas, such as astronomical observation, ecology, safety, and human health. For … Continue reading Thursday, Sep. 21, at the Belagaio Natural State Reserve, a day focused on protection and promotion of dark-sky areas →

May 2017: MoU between Attivarti.org and CNR IBIMET signed

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A memorandum of understanding was signed by the Italian National Research Council’s Institute of Biometeorology and Attivarti.org. This act creates a liaison between a research organization and a small NGO active in outreach activities providing a formal setting for the joint initiatives that these two subjects have been conducting for over three years, starting from the … Continue reading May 2017: MoU between Attivarti.org and CNR IBIMET signed →

BuioMetria Partecipativa at the University of Pisa (May 16, 2017): how did it go?

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A very interested audience, composed both by students, researchers, and full professors from the University of Pisa (plus a guest from the S. Anna School of Advanced Studies) attended the seminar summarizing the experiences by CNR IBIMET and the BuioMetria Partecipativa project in the fields of light pollution and promotion and protection of night skies. In the … Continue reading BuioMetria Partecipativa at the University of Pisa (May 16, 2017): how did it go? →

May 16, 2017: a lecture on research, outreach and citizen science applied to artificial light at night at the University of Pisa

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017, from 2PM to 4PM in room A of the Polo Didattico Nobili, Pisa University, Italy, there will be a lecture on “Artificial Light at Night: Perspectives between Tuscany and Europe on Research, Outreach, and Citizen Science“. The lecturers will be  Luciano Massetti, Senior Technologist at the Institute of Biometeorology of the … Continue reading May 16, 2017: a lecture on research, outreach and citizen science applied to artificial light at night at the University of Pisa →

About a week after the Farma Valley Winter Fest

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[TO BE TRANSLATED] Passato il Natale e pur il Natalino – riprende la routine, da Bolzano a Pachino… A una settimana dal Festival, si comincia a condividere una sintesi che è all’interno del gruppo di lavoro cominciata dalla mattina dopo. Personaggi La giornalista (G) L’ingegnere (I) La barRista (B) Il titolare del bar (T) Interno giorno … Continue reading About a week after the Farma Valley Winter Fest →

Farma Valley Winter Fest – Summary of Day 3

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[TO BE TRANSLATED] Per avviare la giornata: il branobag del 20-12-2012 La terza giornata del festival d’inverno in Val di Farma -sintesi: Un’anteprima del pomeriggio di domenica 18 con Peter Seeds e gli Etruschi from Lakota: Grazie a Luciano Massetti, che oltre a fare ricerca sulla biometeorologia è anche un discreto fotografo, detto da un ignorante. … Continue reading Farma Valley Winter Fest – Summary of Day 3 →

An article on dark skies and artificial light in the CNR Book on the Year of Light

Scientific Publications

The Italian National Research Council published a book with contributions from various institutes which during 2015 were active in the International Year of Light. This volume also contains a chapter on “Dark skies and artificial light at night” by Luciano Massetti, Francesco Sabatini (IBIMET Firenze) and Andrea Giacomelli (Attivarti.org). The book is available in digital … Continue reading An article on dark skies and artificial light in the CNR Book on the Year of Light →