Sentences with phrase «dark nighttime sky»

In addition to gauging the value to park visitors of a dark nighttime sky, the study also provides data to park managers at Acadia — and by extension, other parks — enabling them to develop visitor - driven plans for setting light pollution targets.

According to a study published Sept. 4 in Park Science, visitors also value and seek to protect a different kind of threatened natural resource in the parks: dark nighttime skies.

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Her current exhibition, Kyle Staver: Recent Paintings at Tibor de Nagy (October 17 — November 23, 2013), which is comprised of four paintings, all nearly six feet high and a little more than four feet wide, In «Daphne» (2013) and «Syrinx» (2013), the darkest paintings, the figures are pressed closer to the picture plane than in «Andromeda» (2013) and «Groupers» (2013), which take place in a nighttime sky and ocean.

In the atmosphere these gases act like a blanket trapping heat, and the effect is prominent at nighttime because that's when the sky is dark and more heat can radiate away into space.