Citizen Science is All Fun and Games - You are probably familiar with initiatives like Seti@Home, where you donate unused... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/citizen-science-is-all-fun-and-games/ #citizenscience #science #cancer #games
So the question remains: when we look at cities from space at night, if it's not streetlights that make up all the light we see, then what the heck is it? (6/)
That's what motivated our #Nachtlichter project. In 2019, the @association issued a call to Helmholtz Centres for #CitizenScience projects. In addition to running a citizen science experiment, the projects had to involve at least two different centres.
Together with colleagues from @DLR and @ufz, we submitted a project idea called Nachtlicht-B眉HNE: https://nachtlicht-buehne.de/
The name in English means: "Citizen Helmholtz network for research into nocturnal light phenomena".
The project had two parts: DLR (the German space agency) would create and app for reporting Fireballs: https://meteor.nachtlicht-buehne.de/
And our group would create an app for studying outdoor lights: https://lichter.nachtlicht-buehne.de/#l=14.7/49.57249/10.89506
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In 2021, hundreds of citizen scientists walked a distance of 600 km, counting up and classifying all of the outdoor lights they could see while they did it. The results of their observations have just been published in the journal Nature Cities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00239-5
Find out why they did it, and what they found out in this thread 馃憞
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#CitizenScience#LightPollution#OpenAccess#NighttimeLights #RemoteSensing #Nachtlichter
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