A midwinter night’s dream
Astronomers naturally revel in the dark, yet for hundreds of years the disciples of the night sky have watched it disappear into a haze of light pollution. As the tentacles of urbanisation and artificial light encroach on even the darkest observation footholds in the world, we can no longer solve the problem simply by moving observatories from one remote place to the next.
The Southern Hemisphere has been slow to catch on to the
