Posters and presentations online
Presentations
- Introduction
- Theoretical concepts of modeling the light pollution – Chairman: Chris Baddiley
- Miroslav Kocifaj (Slovakia) – Modeling the night-sky radiances and inversion of multiangle and multispectral radiance data
- Zoltan Kollath (Hungaria) - On the feasibility of sky glow tomography
- Henk Spoelstra (The Netherlands) - The Dutch Light Pollution Model IPO-Light
- Amy Jones (Austria) - An Improved Scattered Moonlight Model for the Sky Background
- Numerical tools and simulation experiments – Chairman: Christian Luginbuhl
- Martin Aubé (Canada) – An online mapping of sky radiance contribution and sensitivity from sky radiance model ILLUMINA
- Peter den Outer (The Netherlands) - Luminance measurements and modelling
- Johanne Roby (Canada) - Impact of Light Pollution before and after the Creation of the First International Dark Sky Reserve, OMM, Quebec, Canada
- Miroslav Kocifaj (Slovakia) – Night sky luminance under clear sky conditions: theory vs. experiment. Field campaign in Frýdek-Místek
- Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel (Spain) - Evolution of the energy consumed by street lighting in Spain estimated with DMSP-OLS data
- Bülent Aslan (Turkey) - Sky brightness measurement and light pollution mapping Case study: Eskisehir city center and surroundings
- Impact of spectral characteristics of light sources, aerosols, obstacles and reflecting surfaces – Chairman: Dan M. Duriscoe
- Christian Luginbuhl (USA) - The Impact of Light Source Spectral Power Distribution on Sky Glow
- Stanislav Darula (Slovakia) – Windows in buildings: potential source of light pollution
- Dan M. Duriscoe (USA) – The relation of outdoor lighting characteristics to sky glow from distant cities
- Helmuth Horvath (Austria) - Basic aerosol light scattering and the role of back scattering for sky radiance
- Design and evaluation of dark sky friendly lighting technologies – Chairman: Johanne Roby
- Robert Dick (Canada) - Applied Scotobiology in Luminaire Design
- Martin Aubé (Canada) – Three new spectral indices to infer potential impacts of artificial lights on melatonin suppression, vegetation photosynthesis, and star visibility
- Jean-Pierre Lavallée (Canada) - Optimized Optical Filter for LED Lighting
- Christian Luginbuhl (USA) - How effective are lighting codes?
- Chris Baddiley (UK) - Modelling Sky Glow from luminaire designs
- K. Pushkala (India) - Environment light affects the prevalence of breast cancer
- Jan Hollan (Czech Republic) – Which ies-eulumdat fits the given geomery of street lighting best? Selecting a luminaire from thousands of luminaire photometries
- Observational techniques, data, and products 1 – Chairman: Christopher Kyba
- Dan Duriscoe (USA) - Night Sky Quality across Protected Areas of the United States: The National Park Service Night Skies Program Database
- Salvador J. Ribas (Spain) - Measuring Light Pollution in Montsec: a protected area
- Brian Espey (Ireland) - Light Pollution Measurements in Ireland
- Chu Wing So - Night Sky Observing in Hong Kong
- Kai Pong Tong (Germany) - Results of International SQM Survey Campaign 2011 and 2012
- Thomas Posch (Austria) - Night Sky Brightness Measurements and Night Sky Spectroscopy performed at the Vienna University Observatory
- Nicolas Bourgeois (France) - International Dark Sky Reserve of Pic du Midi de Bigorre: a great potential for the study of light pollution
- Christopher Kyba (Germany) – A mobile app allowing citizen scientists to characterize skyglow and stellar visibility
- Camille-Antoine Ouimet (Canada) - Monitoring the sky brightness of the first international dark sky reserve at Mont-Mégantic, Canada
- Günther Wuchterl (Germany) - Energy content and sources of urban light domes
- Observational techniques, data, and products 2 – Chairman: Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel
- Christopher Kyba (Germany) - New sources of skyglow data
- Héctor Antonio Solano Lamphar (Slovakia) - Development of a device to measure sky glow levels with the use of CCD cameras
- Dan M. Duriscoe (USA) – Indicators of visual sky quality derived from V-band all-sky CCD
- Günther Wuchterl (Germany) - Astronomy and World Heritage - Finding and Monitoring Starlight Reserves images
- Conclusion
Posters
- Jaime Zamorano/ A. Sánchez de Miguel (Spain) – Night sky brightness and light pollution at Madrid area
- Seyyed Hamed Mirzakhalil (Iran) – A new definition of light pollution based on the status of light pollution in Iran
- Petr Zavada (Czech Republic) – Environmental zones classification in the Czech Republic
- P. uriš (Slovakia) – Poloniny Dark-Sky Park
- P. uriš (Slovakia) – First results of continuous night sky brightness monitoring at Poloniny Dark-Sky Park, Slovakia
- Jose Jiménez Garrido - Dark Sky Conservation in Sierra Sur Range, Andalucia. Spain: astronomy as a tool of social revitalitation and environmental conservation
- Constance E. Walker (USA) - Measuring and Characterizing Sky Brightness over the Nighttime in Tucson and Surrounding Observatory Mountaintops
- Jaime Zamorano/ A. Sánchez de Miguel (Spain) – Night sky brightness and light pollution at Madrid area