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On the 31st of March this year, after 18 months of hard work, the KID project came to an official end. The partners are now finishing up reporting, so let's take this moment to also wrap everything up on here, by means of a final project update. Let's go over everything that the project has achieved...

Under the CC license CC BY we provide access to many of the data collected by KID. In the repository you will find raw images and analysed fils of the zenith brightness at different KID locations.  Camera based data can be accessed here https://cloud.uol.de/s/2pR856PQ9eNAHaj SQM data measu...

From the 14th to the 16th of March, the 16th edition of the European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky was held in Paterswolde, near the city of Groningen. Close to a hundred like minded individuals, from various different backgrounds, came together to showcase and discuss their projects...

Of course, as has been stated many times on our webpage, one of our main goals is constructing a sound methodology to accurately measure and keep track of light pollution. We attempt to do this by means of analysis of various types of measurement equipment under numerous distinct skies - but, this i...

The KID network of measurement stations keeps growing and growing in size - yes, we keep busy. One of our latest additions is a special one, and has been set up on the island of Borkum, in Lower Saxony, Germany....

Last weekend, a team of Danish, Dutch and German scientists installed KID measurement stations in Denmark. The locations selected as pilot sites for the project include downtown Ribe, in Jutland, as a bright sky environment monitoring location, and the Wadden island of Mandø as a darker sky ana...

This year’s European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky marks the 16th in a series of conferences, that bring experts together to take a stand against the increasing problem of light pollution. In 2024, the conference is to be held in Groningen, the Netherlands, and to be organised by the...

The figure presented here shows a couple of so-called Jellyfish plots. Together they summarise all sky brightness measurements (so far) in just one graph, which provides us with a nice overview. Here, each point in the plots represents a single measurement....

One of KID’s newest members is Farhan Shah, a research trainee with a background in environmental engineering. His interest in light pollution and the environmental impact thereof compelled him to join the project. ...