Starlord wrote:

A few weeks back, the Mojave Desert News had an editrol about the number of
OLD ( I.E.not full cut off croba heads ) street lights that where out in
Mojave and Boron ( which is 1/4th the size of Rosamond ). I fired off a
e-mail to the editor ( Signed with name & address ) about how they could :
1. replace the old ones with full cut off croba heads.

Hopefully spelling cobra the right way... otherwise it sounds like you
advocate decapitating streetlamps with crowbars.

2. check the areas and do away with ones that where close to another light
and there by remove some of the cost of the light bill to the city and make
the sky over Mojave just a tiny bit darker, instead of becomeing another
watesfull Los Angeles cess pool of light.

This am I picked up this weeks paper ( it only comes out once a week ) and
in it they have another deal about the lights the S.C.Edison hasn't fixed
yet and that they got an email afrom someone against street lights who is an
astronomer, and in their own way they kind of say screw that yahoo, go out
into the desert someplace else.

When I come back from Lancaster today, I'm going to write and postal mail
them another letter and I'll spell out some facts of life too.

You need to express it clearly in terms of wasted tax dollars lighting
up the sky. You can save money and have the same amount of light on the
ground by using the right fixtures. That might interest the general
populus. Everyone knows astronomers are wierd scary people of the night.

And fear of the dark seems to be an all consuming paranoia these days.
The number of houses with kW class insecurity lamps is getting crazy.

I'll put it this way, Lancaster has almost 200,000 people, Mojave has maybe
2 to 3,000, yet it has almost the same light dome as Lancaster.

That seems surprising.
Is Lancaster particularly good, of Mojave exceptionally bad?

Regards,
Martin Brown