{"id":4460,"date":"2026-02-28T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:01:10","slug":"how-dark-is-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4460","title":{"rendered":"How Dark is the Sky?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Following on from our discussion in the Jan meeting re LEOs there was an Astrobites post last week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cTwo satellite proposals threaten dark and quiet skies worldwide\u201d.&nbsp; (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/astrobites.org\/2026\/02\/26\/reflect-orbital-ai-data-center\/\">LINK HERE<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">To quote from the article <em>\u201cThe first proposal is from Reflect Orbital, a company with the stated goal of selling \u201csunlight after dark\u201d. To achieve this, they propose to deploy a constellation of over 50,000 in-space mirrors by 2035 to redirect the sunlight back to Earth at night\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0<br>This sounds like a game changer to me! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">In connection to this topic the campaign for dark skies is being re-launched, Nick is on the committee. More information on their website (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cfdsnetwork.org\/\">LINK HERE<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AAS-cfds-website-pic-2a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AAS-cfds-website-pic-2a-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AAS-cfds-website-pic-2a-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AAS-cfds-website-pic-2a-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AAS-cfds-website-pic-2a-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AAS-cfds-website-pic-2a-210x140.jpg 210w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AAS-cfds-website-pic-2a.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Campaign for Dark Skies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from our discussion in the Jan meeting re LEOs there was an Astrobites post last week \u201cTwo satellite proposals threaten dark and quiet skies worldwide\u201d.&nbsp; (LINK HERE) To quote from the article \u201cThe first proposal is from Reflect Orbital, a company with the stated goal of selling \u201csunlight after dark\u201d. To achieve this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4462,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}