Hoegaarden Astronomy & Photography
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Despite the lack of darkness… this is a picture of my South horizon, as seen from the observatory. The white blob of light pollution is probably the Hoegaarden brewery.
A big change as last week, the old lights were replaced with LED.
It’s very frustrating that this happened without any questions or communication. It’s even my impression that the municipality Hoegaarden does not even know about it. It seems that Fluvius is doing this all in silence.
So an opportunity was missed, to get decent light fixtures. It´s not all bad. Tjoyfhbthey seem brighter, the light color is more yellow. Also they project their light not as far in the gardens as the old fixtures.
The overall light pollution sideways and upwards seems to be improved; Below two pictures from the all-sky camera that give an impression.
What’s the impact on SQM? with a clear sky and humidity around 80%, there is still a jump on SQM after midnight – when the lights go out. The SQM measurement jumps from 20.05 to 20.30 which is considerable (SQM is a logarithmic scale).
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