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Letter: Letters : Damned disco

Published 5 October 1996

From Colin Shelbourn

Windermere, Cumbria

Your article on the new problems of radio astronomy (“Are we killing
astronomy?”, 24 August, p 28) struck a chord with this amateur astronomer.

Since April, sky watchers in southern Lakeland have suffered interference on
four nights of each week from a local disco which projects a set of laser-like
lights across the night sky as an advertisement. The beams are visible within a
radius of six or seven miles. Despite being in a national park, local
authorities have no legislation available to control this fine example of
deliberate light pollution.

Issue no. 2050 published 5 October 1996

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