The 2017 Summer campaign for night sky quality monitoring, conducted jointly with the University of Pisa and the Institute of Biometeorology of the National Research Council was presented at the First Italian Citizen Science Conference in Rome, Nov. 23-24, 2017.



Thanks to Luciano Massetti (CNR-IBIMET)

Following the wave of events for its 140th anniversary, the philarmonic band of Torniella, Southern Tuscany, will be on Saturday, Nov. 25 in Rome.

The band will be celebrating Saint Cecilia, patroness of musicians, together with four other philarmonic bands (Brescia, Napoli, Viterbo, and Nicolosi, Sicily), and the choir directed by Mons. Frisina.

The event will start at 5PM in the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.

Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at the Milan Acquarium, there will be a gathering of communities active in Europe on the issue of light pollution.
The event is organized by the Stars4All EU project. The BuioMetria Partecipativa project will be present with a talk.

For more information about the event  and for registration: https://www.eventbrite.es/e/entradas-stars4all-light-pollution-initiative-gathering-39798176417

For Buiometria Partecipativa fans (or if you are just curious about our project) : if you plan to attend, or if you will be in Milano, can’t attend from 9AM to 6PM but would still like to make contact, please write to bmp@pibinko.org.

If you happen to be Friday, Nov. 17, or Saturday, Nov. 18 2017 in Rovereto (Trento), in this year’s edition of the Meteorology Festival you will have a chance to learn more about the  BuioMetria Partecipativa , project, the issue of light pollution, and some ongoing measurement campaigns.

To “enlighten” you on the topic you will find Luciano Massetti from the Institute of Biometeorology of the National Research Council in Florence. At the CNR stand you may have additional explanations and -depending on weather conditions- there may be the possibility of conducting some measurements early in the evening.

For enquiries on the event: Luciano Massetti  (l.massetti@ibimet.cnr.it)

BuioMetria Partecipativa was selected to be part of the activities to compose a sustainable tourism package of four days. This was experimented in early November by a consortium of operators coordinated by the  Tuscan Mining Geopark and assessed by a panel of international testers from the  DESTIMED European project. The first test was conducted between Nov. 6 and 9, 2017.