I just had Sandy City come out and install a block of some kind on the street light in my front yard, and the one in the neighbor's yard. It doesn't block 100% of the light, but it does prevent direct light from landing on my house (or my scope when it is in the driveway). Not as good as turning it off, but an improvement, nonetheless. They came and did the work within 2 days of me requesting it, at no charge. I also requested some kind of cutoff fixture so the light isn't scattered upward. That doesn't appear to be part of the block that was installed, so I may ask them to come back. I thought about the switch but was sure I would kill myself trying. Dion ________________________________ From: Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Light Pollution Terrorism in Sandy Fortunately no street lights where I grew up (in a suburb of San Diego), but many a neighbor probably needlessly replaced a porch light that had been partially unscrewed from time to time... :) /R ________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Light Pollution Terrorism in Sandy The only laser I had when I was a kid was an Edmund HeNe borrowed from school. And no photocells on streetlights in those days. But the wrist rocket was fun anyway. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com>wrote:
When I was living in Denver, I had a streetlight directly across from my house.
I discovered it had a large photocell on top of it to turn it on an off. A laser pointer duct tape to a camera tripod happened to be able to turn it off. Even had cops come through the neighborhood, and never suspect a thing (The laser pointer was hidden in the hedges). I always wondered if anyone called in a repair, there wasn't anything wrong with it, so the tech would be very confused.
A set of rechargeable AAs would get me through the night. No muss, no fuss.
I imagine they are the same design here, but I don't have one in the way of my house.
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