Citizen science is a growing field that is generating new knowledge through the collaboration of citizens in scientific research. As this field expands it has started showing that it can be integrated into education in both formal and informal learning environments. In particular, the integration into education systems is creating new synergies as students acquire…
Imagine a movie that includes 50-100 pictures of the sky every single night. A snapshot of the sky brightness progress. That’s the idea behind the AZOTEA project The cameras of our collaborators monitor the night sky to serve our main research purpose: to study the light pollution evolution by measuring the brightness and color of…
The efforts for spreading the Street Spectra project are more visible than ever. Thanks to the collaboration of the astronomy association “Astroguada” 8 schools have signed up to involve their students on the project. They gave us the opportunity of reaching all the students from ages 12 to 18. Each group got two different sessions…
A year and a half ago, Spain became one of the first countries to go into lockdown. A group of researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, took this opportunity to study the variation of the brightness and color of the night sky in this period of time and used it to estimate the human contribution…
The Festival for Art, Technology and Society “Ars Electronica” is an internationally platform for digital art and media culture that enjoys a worldwide reputation. This year’s edition took place from September the 9th to the 13th, and for the first time, it happened not only in Linz, but at 120 locations around the globe. 6…
Citizen science engage students in meaningful science research that addresses real world issues and leads to scientific advancement. We would like to invite school students to contribute to one particular project. We intend to generate awareness about the problem of light pollution in general, and the consequences of the global switch out of the older…
Light pollution was believed could only be measured with photometers from the ground, but a new research published in Scientific Reports (Nature group) has proven that it is also detectable from space. Satellites detect diffused light in unlighted areas outside cities. Until now these detections were attributed to an instrumental effect but the study shows that this…
As millions across the globe are having to self-isolate to prevent the spread of coronavirus astronomical observation activities are reduced to those we can carry out from our home with instrumentation we happen to have with us. The lockdown is an exceptional opportunity to measure the effects of the decrease in human activity on the…
The III Congreso ProAm de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía was a meeting point between the community of professional astronomers and the very active community of astronomy enthusiasts in Spain.Our researchers have attended this conference in order to present Street Spectra with a poster describing the motivation being the change in technology lighting is suffering around the…
The ActiON pilot project Street Spectra has recently set up an ad hoc new website that serves as a resource for information related to the project. Explore https://streetspectra.actionproject.eu and browse through all the new interesting materials! The home screen offers links to the epicollect5 app from both the Apple store and Google play. It also…