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[arethinn]

I was really confused by the full-moon-like whitish light spilling over the back fence into the yard just now. Isn't it near new moon, I thought? Maybe I got way off in my memory of the lunar cycle, somehow? ... nope. They've apparently just replaced those orangey sodium vapor streetlights with white LEDs. Normally I'd be in favor of LEDs as longer-lasting, drawing fewer watts, etc... but do they have to be THAT bright in that color? Why not dimmer and a bit warmer (even if not as orange as the sodium ones)? Really. If I was fooled at first into thinking it was moonlight, what about animals that respond to it? I mean, it's bright enough it might compete with, if not wash out, the actual #@*$^ing Moon, never mind the stars (AAAAUGFH--*?!), which were already not exactly bright in suburbia.

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[chalcedony_starlings]

Light pollution though. Sympathies. :-(

[andros_b]

Feh, sympathies. Light pollution sucks.

[digitalsidhe]

Ugh, that sounds awful. I feel you.

[caraven]

I wonder if the white light has more blue frequencies (presumably?), which would make it also more disruptive to sleep patterns and melatonin production? It's like how I'm having a hard time finding amber LED light bulbs for indoors--how much is that disrupting sleep patterns even as you can have your phones and computers go to "evening mode" now?

[arethinn]

It's quite obviously a cooler color temperature than the 2700K sodium lights were, yeah. It also seems brighter, but I don't know if that's absolutely true in terms of lumens or if it just seems that way because it's relatively bluer. I don't know why they didn't use something more like warm-white and not so bright.