The campaign was founded in 1989 by amateur astronomers as a sub-section of the BAA specialising in combatting skyglow.[3] It is now open to non-members of the BAA, includes lighting engineers and environmentalists, and campaigns on the wider effects of light pollution.
Elan Valley Estate (mid-Wales) Dark Sky Park (2015)
Tomintoul and Glenlivet-Cairngorms Dark Sky Park (2018)
Publications
In 2009, the CfDS published its handbook Blinded by the Light?.[10]
Conferences
CfDS 2006: Dark-Skies Symposium, Portsmouth, UK, September 15–16, 2006.
Exterior lighting, statutory nuisance and light pollution, De Montfort University, April, 2006.
Planning, Exterior Lighting and the Environment, De Montfort University, 20 April 2012.
Notes
^British Astronomical Association Archived 2012-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
^International Dark-Sky Association
^About the Campaign for Dark Skies
^Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 c. 16 Part 9 Statutory nuisances Section 102
^Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 c. 16 Part 9 Statutory nuisances Section 103
^Forest park given Dark Sky honour
^"Sark Island and Hortobágy National Park Earn Dark Sky Status From the International Dark-Sky Association" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
^Lights Out: Tiny Sark Named First 'Dark-Sky' Island
^International Dark Sky Reserve – Exmoor National Park Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
^"Blinded by the Light? handbook description". Archived from the original on 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
References
Campaign for Dark Skies, Blinded by the Light - A Handbook on light pollution, Campaign for Dark Skies, 2009