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Street Spectra – Join the Streetlights Hunting!

Lucía García (ES)

Wed Sep 9, 2020, 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
All times are given in Central European Summer Time (CEST / UTC +2).
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Turn your smartphone into a scientific instrument using a cheap diffraction grating. The Street Spectra citizen science project lets you get surprising pictures of the colourful spectra produced by the streetlamps in your neighborhood. The information gathered in this project will help characterize light pollution sources in your city so that experts can assess the impact of the global switch-out of older street lighting to new LEDs.

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