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Arethinn ([personal profile] arethinn) wrote2017-12-16 10:26 pm

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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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[personal profile] chalcedony_starlings 2017-12-17 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)

Light pollution though. Sympathies. :-(

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[personal profile] andros_b 2017-12-17 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Feh, sympathies. Light pollution sucks.
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[personal profile] digitalsidhe 2017-12-17 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, that sounds awful. I feel you.
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[personal profile] caraven 2017-12-20 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
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?