Reply To: Light Pollution Consultation and CPRE Star Count

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Daryl Dobbs
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A concern myself and a few others have over the CPRE data is that it’s possible to zoom in to the exact house the observations were made, according to the CPRE this should not be possible, but myself and several people I know have demonstrated that this can be done and has been reported here on a previous thread last year by a few people. The problem here is that this data is in the public domain and it can give the impression that the location has potentially expensive equipment possibly in an outbuilding. This leaves open the possibility of theft or vandalism.

An article on the BBC seems to contradict the report from the CPRE for last year and the previous year, I tend to trust Dr Kyba’s results as questions were raised in an interesting thread on here last year over the methodology the CPRE uses to arrive at their conclusions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64321824