Light Pollution

Dimming Stars

Since Thomas Edison began marketing his light bulb in 1880, light pollution began and our view of the stars has been dimming. A barely perceptible dimming at first, but now the brilliance of the night sky is definitely fading - right before our urbanized eyes.

Amateur astronomers are finding it harder and harder to isolate themselves from sources of urban light because the sky is shrouded with the glow of inefficient wasted city lighting.

Observatories from California to the Czech Republic are threatened with increasing light pollution.

Wasting Energy

Not only is light pollution ruining our view of the stars - it is a waste of energy.

This light shines up from the ground and onto the side of the bulding with much wasted light escaping into the sky. A well- positioned light will shine down onto the building and ground where it is needed.