Star light, star bright

County communities embrace the dark to save the night sky

  • Sun Archive.
    Sun Archive.
  • This graphic shows how different types of lighting can affect viewing the night sky. Shielded, timed, and warm-colored lights with low intensity provide the best way to limit light pollution while seeing in the dark. Seeing the night sky and limiting light pollution can benefit human health. Illustration by Matthew Brake.
    This graphic shows how different types of lighting can affect viewing the night sky. Shielded, timed, and warm-colored lights with low intensity provide the best way to limit light pollution while seeing in the dark. Seeing the night sky and limiting light pollution can benefit human health. Illustration by Matthew Brake.
When Donna Leonard and her husband moved to Liberty Hill from California in 2015, her two older children paid a visit. It was a family tradition to look at the night sky and try to find a shooting star, so her family went star gazing at the back end of their new property. A game camera in the family’s backyard captured the moment her kids pointed up at the same shooting star and watched it soar…

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