Jan 2024: Walking in a Freakily Large Planetarium.

Host Bill McGeeney is joined by AstroBackyard's Ashley Northcotte, lighting designer and founder of Dark Source, Kerem Asfuroglu, and educator and advocate, Diane Turnshek.

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Bill's Picks:

• God’s Promises Are Clearest When We Turn Out the Lights, Cort Gatliff, Christianity Today. 
• Stays in Vegas: London mayor rejects plan for Stratford Sphere venue, Robert Booth, The Guardian. 
• Heber Valley Utah Temple approved. See why the church agreed to dim the lighting, Tad Walch, Dessert News. 
• Trains, stargazing put Ely on the map. Critics fear clean energy project could undo that., Wyaat Myskow, The Nevada Independent. 
• Energy efficiency indicators in road lighting: critical evaluation in a case study, Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences. 
• Shining a light on duckweed: exploring the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on growth and pigmentation, Plant Biology. 
• Giant lasers to light up San Francisco for APEC, Amy Larson, KRON 4. 
• Why can’t I wish

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