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Delhi's stargazers to watch skies during
Earth hour Saturday
Friday March 30, 2012 08:34:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Stargazers in the capital will Saturday get a chance to observe
celestial bodies in a sky free from light pollution as the city
will turn off its lights to mark the Earth Hour 2012 beginning
8:30 p.m.
Science awareness organisation, SPACE (Science Popularization
Association of Communicators and Educators) will set up telescopes
at India Gate Saturday evening between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. for
people to observe how the sky looks in absence of light pollution.
SPACE will also conduct the Great Indian Star Count, a programme
to measure light pollution. In this programme, people across the
world look at the same constellation - 'Orion' (The Hunter) and
count the stars.
Orion is a constellation of seven main stars. But due to light
pollution in big cities, some of the stars cannot be seen. The
number of stars seen in different parts of the world, creates a
global light pollution map.
The star count will be conducted before and during Earth Hour to
point out the difference in the number of stars seen when the
ambient lights are turned off.
Every year, during Earth Hour, lights at major monuments like
India Gate or the Qutub Minar are turned off as a token step
towards energy and environmental conservation.
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