An Appeal For Darkness...

Astronomers in France are battling for more darkness..
The vast amount of stray light in urban areas make a clear view..
of the starry heavens nearly impossible..
According to the magazine Le Point,
astronomers are urging city authorities to equip street lights..
with reflectors that direct the light downward and to require..
that advertising and office building lights, as well as laser- light displays,
be turned off at 11 p.m Michel Bonavitacola,
president of the Center for the Protection of the Night Sky, argued:
" Today not one child in a hundred can say that he has seen the
Milky Way...

Yet this spectacle, which is both magnificant and free,
helps us to comprehend our true place in the universe....