Loss of the Night is a novel Android app that is helping to stair out star visibility in addition to lite pollution closed to the world.
The app uses the good known Sky Map (developed yesteryear Google in addition to forthwith opened upward sourced) to crowd-source lite pollution. With the app users only require to hold off upward at the sky, discovery sure enough stars, in addition to tape whether they tin come across them or not.
Users' observations are in addition to then sent anonymously to the GLOBE at Night database.
The GLOBE at Night has itself created a Google Map of lite pollution measurements taken yesteryear earth during the GLOBE at Night 2012 campaign.
Night Lights is a composite map of satellite images taken inwards 2012. The 'Blue Marble' icon used inwards the map was created yesteryear NASA yesteryear carefully sifting through satellite images taken over time, inwards lodge to eliminate every bit much cloud comprehend every bit possible from the collated laid upward of images.
