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22 June 2007�
London lights out for environment
In pictures: Lights Out London The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham
Palace and Piccadilly Circus were among London landmarks plunged into darkness to raise
awareness of global warming.
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Hoag/Robinson Award 2007
During the Starlight Conference, the IDA delivered the Hoag/Robinson Award 2007 to
Pedro Sanhueza, Director of the Office for the Protection of the Quality of the Sky
(OPCC-Chile) .
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NEW WEBSITES
German
dark sky initiative: "Initiative gegen
lichtverschmutzung" (renewed).
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H.R.H. Felipe de Borb�n, Prince of Asturias,
accepted to chair the Honorary Board of the "International Conference in Defence of
the Quality of the Night Sky and the Right to Observe the Stars".
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First meeting
of the Starlight Scientific Committee
La Palma, November 23-24, 2006
The island of La Palma
(Biosphere Reserve) hosted on November 23-24, 2006 the first meeting of the Starlight 2007
Scientific Committee. The meeting was part of the preparatory process for the
forthcoming Starlight International Conference of April 2007. During the meeting, motives
and objectives of the initiatives were debated, as well as the contents of the
International Conference that will be held on the same island in April 2007.
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Can
You See the Stars?
GLOBE at Night campaign.
More than
18,000 citizen-scientists in 96 countries submitted 4,591 observations of the darkness of
their local night skies during the 10-day GLOBE at Night event (March 8-211, 2007).
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OPCC-Chile:
Focal Point of the Starlight Initiative
During the Scientific Committee meeting of last November, and on proposal of the OPCC
(Office for the Protection of Northern Chile Sky Quality), it was agreed that this
institution would act as a focal point of the Starlight 2007 Initiative and would
cooperate in the dissemination of the International Conference in Defence of the Quality
of the Night Sky and the Right to the Starlight that will be held in April 2007 on the
island of La Palma.
http://www.opcc.cl
Contact: Pedro Sahuenza
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