This was the event closing the “long tail” of the Third Farma Vally Winter Fest, also announcing the 2019 Spring-Summer Farma Valley Campus (for more information: info@pibinko.org)
Yearly Archives: 2018
The Metalliferous Hills Jug Band set in Montemassi (Southern Tuscany, Dec. 29, 2018)
The topic of the evening was memories from 1968, and at least half of the instruments were at least from that year (kudos to the Giacomelli and Spinosi families for lending the Eko guitars).
For more information see the main web page for the collective. For booking write to jugbandcm@pibinko.org
The Metalliferous Hills Jug Band (v 20181229)
The Metalliferous Hills Jug Band just before the concert on 1968 in Montemassi (Southern Tuscany).
BuioMetria Partecipativa
Participatory night sky quality monitoring….
- A brief introduction to the BMP project
- Lighting and darkness services by pibinko.org
- The map of the measurements
For more information: bmp@pibinko.org
A listing in random order of all articles about BuioMetria Partecipativa from the pibinko.org News section, since 2008 (reload this page to see a different ordering):
- Closing the pibinko.org + Attivarti.org Winter tour (from the Farma Valley in eight regions) at Fa’ la Cosa Giusta
- From the red rocks of Arbatax to the slate-coloured rocks of Roccatederighi (4-5 Feb.)
- July 30, 2015 – Milano: mapp(ear)ing the upper half of the landscape, between stars and stables
- Operational perspectives on protection and promotion of the night sky after the Capraia International Symposium – a report on the March 13, 2019 Workshop in Florence, Italy
- Organization of the Loss of the Night experimental campaign in Tuscany
- The BuioMetria Partecipativa project in the International Dark Sky Week 2017
- The first SQM observation provided by a “non-BMP” sensor
- An Italian interdisciplinary citizen observatory for the protection and promotion of night skies on year 12 of its evolution: challenges and opportunities from a Digital Earth perspective
- The pibinko.org network, buiometria, and participatory lithology @ Radio Popolare Milano (March 26, 2020)
- Monitoring Light Pollution with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: A Case Study Comparing RGB Images and Night Ground Brightness
- May 5, 2019: Come to the first “buioblitz” in Southern Tuscany @ Quanto Basta bookshop, Grosseto
- Astronomy Campus at Capraia Island
- Between Dusk and Dawn: an exhibition after the 2010 photo contest
- The first buiometria local lending point is born
- The “LoNNe” intercomparison campaign in Tuscany: how did it go?
- Podcast on “L’Altra Europa”
- “white night” in Massa Marittima
- Sep. 13, 2018: Bam Bam Bam Radio Popolare Milano on the Capraia Night Sky 2018 Symposium
- Tuesday, July 16, 2019, Milan: Outreach on Light Pollution with Wim Schmidt (NL) and BuioMetria Partecipativa
- Summer BMP lending point at Loriano Bartoli’s farm
- Thursday, July 25, 2019: The Night Sky, from the Hungarian Puszta to the Hills of Maremma (Terme Marine Leopoldo II, Marina di Grosseto, Tuscany)
- A moment of “civic” engineering at the Politecnico di Milano
- Map(pear)ing the other half of the landscape in Milano
- May 2017: MoU between Attivarti.org and CNR IBIMET signed
- Le Stelle, no. 163: Where are we at with the sky?
- Grosseto, BuioMetria Partecipativa at the Bernie Bar
- Seminar on BMP for Emilia-Romagna Environmental Education Centers
- Conference in Polignano a Mare (Bari)
- San Giovanni in Persiceto planetarium – educational workshop for kids
- A First Comparison of Italian Regional Light Pollution Legislation
- Options for protection and touristic promotion of night skies
- Culture, environment, open informatics:
- Save the date: Sunday, June 11 in Montarrenti (Siena) a BuioMetria talk in the 40th anniversary of the Siena Amateur Astronomer Association
- Participatory Dark Sky Monitoring in Italy: Interactions between Awareness Raising and Research
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at the Greening Camp (Rome)
- Understanding Community Conservation in Europe, in Gerace
- International Journal of Sustainable Lighting (Vol. 35, no. 1) – February 2017
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in Milan for the European gathering of civic light pollution initiatives
- Press release by Attivarti.org on the “Dark Skies” operation and on comments it is receiving
- Award ceremony for the “Between Dusk and Dawn” photo contest, Massa Marittima
- Poster at the International Astronomy Union General Assembly in Beijing, China
- The Recording of the Maremma in Diretta streaming
- Workshop on the regional master plan on energy and environment in Florence
- INTEGRATING CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, AND OPEN INNOVATION FOR AWARENESS RAISING: A CASE FROM THE FARMA VALLEY, TUSCANY
- Ribolla (GR) – BuioMetria Partecipativa at Elettromarket Giulianelli.
- BMP at the Leonardo da Vinci high school in Civitanova Marche
- First newsletter from the CLIC intercomparison campaign
- BuioMetria Partecipativa on QuiLivorno.it
- TG2 Costume e SocietĂ (national TV)
- Video by Federico Giussani on mapp(ear)ing the upper half of the landscape
- The BMP dataset is registered in CKAN
- Casa del Chiodo in Piloni, Southern Tuscany, Italy: the first participatory mapping farmhouse
- Drivers of artificial light at night variability in urban, rural and remote areas
- Politecnico di Milano, May 30, 2017: Interdisciplinary Land Protection and Planning (the flyer)
- BMP @ Terra Futura 2010, Florence
- Proceedings of the November 2011 conference in Leghorn available
- Monticiano (Siena), BuioMetria at the Knowledge and flavours festival
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in Florence – cafe at the Oblate library
- The beauty of Montieri at night with the photographer and the researcher (Il Tirreno Grosseto edition, Feb 25, 2017)
- A new CORDILIT station has been activated in Torniella
- BuioMetria Partecipativa @ San Giovanni in Persiceto planetarium (Bologna)
- May 16, 2017: a lecture on research, outreach and citizen science applied to artificial light at night at the University of Pisa
- BMP presented in the “Sustainable world” on CiaoComo Radio
- An example of different colour temperatures
- BuioMetria Partecipativa vs. the Tuscan Spiderman
- Athens, September 2015
- BMP at the Roselle astronomical observatory
- BMP data used in scientific paper
- “Buiometria” is Helping to Build Dark Sky Parks
- Partoprenigema MallumMezurado (Esperanto Buiometria)
- Pisa, Dec. 14, 2015: Language mediation and environment – BuioMetria Partecipativa
- Come to measure the dark skies in the “Valley that’s not there” (Il Tirreno, Dec. 17, 2016)
- BMP at the Spina Verde natural park, in Como
- At the 2013 Biodiversity Festival (Parco Nord Milano)
- BMP at the first Dolomites Star Party (Aug. 10/12, 2012)
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in Southern Tuscany – Lesson 1
- Updated version of the Q&A test on light pollution for schools
- Cariddi at Podere Mulinaccio
- Management Committee member for the Loss of the Night Network
- The Autumn BuioMetric Campaign (news by pibinko.org, Nov. 13, 2018)
- The Fourth International Conference on Artificial Light at Night
- Ready for the international symposium on protection and promotion of night sky on the Island of Capraia, Italy
- Oct. 23, 2018: BuioMetria Partecipativa in San Vincenzo
- Save the date: Friday, Sep. 1, 2017 – BuioMetria Partecipativa evening in San Vincenzo (Tuscany)
- A Video on Night Sky Quality in Torniella, Southern Tuscany
- Dec. 1, 2018 – Bar Cerveceria Sidi – Waiting for the Farma Valley Winter Fest with BuioMetria in Madrid
- BMP Interview #6: Elena Maggi (University of Pisa)
- Tue. Jul. 30, 2019: lecture on Atmospheric scattering and the view of the night sky by Zoltán Kolláth at Fondazione E. Mach, S. Michele all’Adige (Italy)
- The 2019 Buiometria Summer Campaign in Collaboration with an International Expert on a Mission in Tuscany
- BuioMetria Partecipativa: the Map
- BMP Interview #5: Rod McDonnell
- Save the date: Apr 7, 2017 webinar on “How Free/Open Source Geomatics can integrate in Rural Communities to improve Resilience and Quality of Life”
- Sharing the Perception of Credibility in Participatory Investigation (2019) – draft
- Closing of the Annual CAAT Conference in Torniella, Tuscany, Dec. 16, 2018
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at the Dolomites Star Party
- July 26, 2017: “Farma Valley Day and Night” at the Belagaio Nature State Reserve (Southern Tuscany)
- 9-4-2011: Silvi, conference on light pollution mitigation and energy saving in Abruzzo
- The darkness surveyors are back, and promising an on-the-road 2014 (Il Tirreno Grosseto edition, Feb. 19, 2014)
- Tuesday, May 30, 2017: “For a more aware use of light” in Lucernate (Milano) – the flyer
- BuioMetria Partecipativa receives the 2019 Dark Sky Defender Award by IDA
- BMP Interview #7: Alessandro Manfrin
- GFOSS.it (Italian OSGEO Chapter) Summer 2008 Campaign
- At the opening of the Ninth Parco Nord Milano Biodiversity Festival
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in a book for children
- Light from the wall
- Presentation in Civitanova Marche for the DESS UNESCO week
- BMP @ “Città dell’Altra Economia”, Rome
- Save the date: Milano, March 11: Community maps of Earth, Sea, and Sky in Fa’ la Cosa Giusta
- Toulouse (France): meetings for the LONNE network
- Here’s a petition to the European Parliament on light pollution, for you to consider..
- Nine years of BuioMetria Partecipativa: not just Citizen Science
- Lecture in Barcelona, Spain, on BuioMetria
- BMP at San Giovanni in Persiceto for the national light pollution day
- CPNS2018-3/28: A Spectroscopic Analysis of Light Pollution at the Asiago Observatory
- CPNS2018-2/28: Incorporating Light Pollution into Cumulative Effects Assessment in Coastal Areas of the Italian Adriatic Sea
- Save the date: nightscape photography workshop by Federico Giussani at Monte Labro (Southern Tuscany)
- Apr. 27-28, 2019: Nightscape Photography Workshop in San Bruzio (Southern Tuscany) with Federico Giussani
- Conference on Light Pollution in Natural Protected Areas in Lazio, with a talk by BuioMetria Partecipativa
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at the LPTMM conference in Zselic, Hungary
- BMP installation at the “Seconda Luna” exhibition
- Blog post on “Around Tuscany” on night sky quality
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in one of the M’illumino di meno events – 2014
- Dec. 17-18-19, 2016: Farma Valley Winter Fest…three days of pici, love, and music in Southern Tuscany
- CPNS2018-5/28: The Sky of Montsec. How a Dark Sky is Impacting the Economy of a Rural Area
- BuioMetria Partecipativa is invited to showcase its activities in Croatia
- The first BuioMetria Partecipativa fixed SQM station is active
- Thu. Nov. 22, 2018: Planning the upper half of the landscape at Politecnico di Milano with the BuioMetria Partecipativa project
- The hunt for the perfect night (La Sicilia, Aug. 8. 2010)
- The “darkness hunter” inset in the Italian Mickey Mouse magazine
- M’illumino di meno in Massa Marittima (1/2)
- In Maremma the first darkness surveyor, countering light pollution (Il Tirreno Grosseto edition, Nov. 4, 2019)
- How dark is the sky in Maremma?
- May 3, 2019, Alghero (Sardinia): Talk on the Alteration of Light at Night and Marine Life at the Faculty of Architecture with the Lab Boat
- Save the date: Aug. 17, 2017 – the BuioMetria Partecipativa Summer Campaign on the Capraia Island (Tuscany)
- Il Tirreno Grosseto edition, Feb. 4, 2017: Two afternoons in Roccatederighi with Pibinko and Attivarti
- Intermittent lights in Turin, Italy
- A Q&A test by Buiometria Partecipativa on light pollution
- Video on “Buiometria at La seconda luna exhibition”
- “White night” in Massa Marittima (Southern Tuscany)
- Presenting BuioMetria Partecipativa at “Join Maremma Online”, Gavorrano
- LONNE Workshop
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in Southern Tuscany – episode 3
- The BuioMetria Summer Campaign covered by Rete Sportelli Informativi Toscana
- While some get gloomy about dark skies…
- Island of Capraia (Tuscany): Sep. 13-14, 2018 – Symposium on Promotion and Protection of the Night Sky
- BMP interviews #2: Leopoldo Dalla Gassa
- Monte Argentario, Tuscany
- The Buiometria Partecipativa Project: Participatory Night Sky Quality Monitoring In Italy. Helping To Liaise Cities And Rural Areas And To Re-Define Citizen Perception Of Artificial Light At Night (2015)
- Round 1 with BuioMetria at Parco Nord Milano (Sep 12-13)
- Lectures on the Application of Participatory Methods for the Design of Interdisciplinary Activities for the Protection and Promotion of the Night Sky (Spring 2020)
- Artificial Light at Night Erases Positive Interactions across Trophic Levels
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at the Nuove Figure Festival
- A report on the Sep 8, 2015 meeting in Ribolla
- presentation on BuioMetria Partecipativa in Alghero (Sardinia)
- At the Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi, with the BuioMetria Partecipativa project
- Capraia Night Sky 2018, reloaded – end of week 1
- Radio interview for Macondo on BuioMetria Partecipativa and night sky quality (July 30, 2015)
- At the second “Grosseto Partecipa” meeting
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in Pistoia (Tuscany)
- So…is it dark? A meeting and an outing in Roccastrada, Southern Tuscany
- BMP Article on “Appunti di Vista”
- The BuioMetria Partecipativa data are available in KML format
- Nov. 15, 2018 “Waiting for the Farma Valley Winter Fest” + BuioMetria @ Hotel Lombardi, Florence
- CPNS2018-5/28: El cel del Montsec. Com un un cel fosc estĂ impactant en l’economia d’una Ă rea rural
- Announcement of the 2009 BuioMetria Summer Campaign
- BuioMetria Partecipativa provides educational credits
- In Follonica: have the installation on the BMP Summer Campaign with a cappuccino
- Publication of EU GPP criteria for road lighting and traffic signals
- Light Pollution: Meet the Expert (Il Tirreno Grosseto edition, Jul. 25, 2019)
- Leghorn, Italy, Oct. 29, 2015: An event talking about light and dark sky at the Natural History Museum
- May 30, 2017, 8.45PM – “For a more aware use of artificial light” Lucernate Community Hall
- Chartered Architects and Engineers acknowledge the Brescia, May 16 Conference on Interdisciplinary Protection and Promotion of the Night Sky for training credits
- Aug. 19, 2019: Discovering the night sky, for a more aware use of light – at the Candle Night, Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at “La Seconda Luna”
- BuioMetria Partecipativa on the Open Knowledge Foundation International Blog (Jan. 10, 2011)
- Light pollution workshop at the S. Giovanni in Persiceto planetarium
- Il Tirreno (Grosseto edition) 24-6-2017 – In the dark on the Gerfalco Trails, to measure the beauty of the skies
- Opening of the 2014 buiometria partecipativa campaign at La Combriccola – Torniella
- At the Connected Automobiles 2015 Hackathon
- A summary of experiences from Italy in the Loss of the Night Network
- The MoU with the Pisa Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici Pisa
- BMP Presentation at the “Home 21” conference
- BuioMetria Partecipativa 2011 Activity Report
- Nuovo Orione #300 (May 2017): Let’s measure the darkness of the night with BuioMetria Partecipativa
- BMP at the Castel di Guido Bird Protection Reserve
- A report about the radio show talking about “m(‘)appare” /mapp(‘ere)ing
- The recording of the webinar of open-source geomatics, environment and music from Southern Tuscany
- CPNS2018-1/28: The ALAN phenomenon in the broader frame of urban evolutionary ecologyďż˝
- BuioMetria Partecipativa receives the “Dark Sky Defender” award by the International Dark Sky Association
- Brescia, Italy, May 16, 2019: Interdisciplinary protection and promotion of the night sky: state of the art, action items, and visions
- “Maremma 2015: Energies for Growth” project
- Balkan Light 2015, Athens, Greece
- BuioMetria Partecipativa proposed in the participatory budget for the Municipality of Grosseto
- Geomusic at GIT 2017 (Gavorrano, Southern Tuscany, June 12-13, 2017)
- Save the date: Aug. 19, 2017 Nightscape photography workshop in Gerfalco (Southern Tuscany)
- Mar. 26, 2018, RAI 3, Prima dell’Alba. Salvo Sottile telling the story of the “BuioMetro”
- BMP interviews #1: EstefanĂa Cañavate GarcĂa
- Feb. 16, 2024 – Lessons in BuioMetria Partecipativa (Il Tirreno, Grosseto edition)
- Light pollution conference in Leghorn, Tuscany
- here we go with a brief history of participatory night sky monitoring from Italy
- Florence, June 6, 2015: Public consultation on Climate and Energy
- Award ceremony for the “Between Dusk and Dawn” photo contest, Massa Marittima
- The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness has been published
- Article by the Municipality of Roccastrada on BMP
- CORDILIT
- Article for “Gazzetta Ambiente”: Global visions and local actions on light pollution
- Assessing the impact of street lighting on Platanus x acerifolia phenology
- Poster on poster: Indigenous Community Conservation in the Farma Valley, Southern Tuscany
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at the Natural History Museum in Leghorn
- Loss of the Night Management Committe member
- 11th European Symposium for the Protection of the night sky – Osnabrueck
- “From Irredentists to Dentists”, and the first Croatian Conference on Light Pollution (pibinko.org News, Jun. 17, 2019)
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at the Museum of Grape and Wine in Roccastrada
- Wrapping up the Farma Valley Winter Fest – Jan. 4, 2017 in Roccastrada
- The BuioMetria Partecipativa Map now embeds also readings by Unihedron
- The new Participatory Night Sky Quality Monitoring Map
- An article on dark skies and artificial light in the CNR Book on the Year of Light
- Grosseto, BMP at CaffĂ© Ricasoli for “La Notte Visibile 2014”
- M’illumino di meno in Massa Marittima (2/2)
- with BuioMetria Partecipativa at ToscanaLab on web 2.0
- Participatory Monitoring in Tuscany (Italy): raising awareness on night sky quality to empower citizens
- BMP Interviews #4: Davide Dominoni
- May 21, 2011: Florence, Terra Futura/ Launch of Attivarti.org and talks on BMP
- BMP Poster at the International Astronomy Union General Assembly in Beijing, China
- Presentation about BuioMetria Partecipativa at an evening on “Smart Citizens”
- Everything is Illuminated
- La Stampa, page 27, on BMP
- Maira on a mission: BuioMetria Partecipativa from China to Pakistan
- The BuioMetria Partecipativa Project (and its operating context since 2008)
- Not all lamps are the same
- Technologies and participatory methods for land protection: the case of light pollution
- CAAT 2018 conference
- “Pianeta Galileo” conference in Leghorn
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in the Orcia Valley
- CPNS2018 4/28: Dark Sky Places of the World
- Lecture at Politecnico di Milano on “map(p)earing the upper half of the landscape”
- Linux Day in Grosseto with m(‘)appare and Buiometria
- Come to the “Sa Lorenzo” night, to measure night sky quality (and count shooting stars) with BuioMetria Partecipativa
- BuioMetria Partecipativa talk @ Toscanalab, Massa Marittima
- More snaphots from the first BuioMetria Partecipativa Sardinian mission (2008)
- The BuioMetria CORDILIT station restarts its measurements under the Sassoforte
- The Fourth Light Pollution Theory, Modelling, and Measurements Conference, Zselic (Hungary, June 25-28, 2019), and its workshop
- Oct. 18, 2019: BuioMetria Partecipativa in Grosseto, Tuscany, at the AMBITA Forum
- 2010 BuioMetria Partecipativa annual activity report
- Geomatics and music at FOSS4G-IT in Genova, Italy
- BMP 2013 Annual Activity Report
- An episode of L’Altro Lato with BuioMetria Partecipativa as the guest star
- Buiometria partecipativa in Matera, June 10, 2011
- Get ready for the 2014 BuioMetria Partecipativa campaign: citizen science, environment, and land
- BMP @ Parco di Pietra, Roselle, Southern Tuscany
- How do you light up your Christmas (in Andalucia)
- BuioMetria Partecipativa published as a case study on Public Lab
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at ASITA – Florence
- Opening in Alghero, Sardinia, of the first lending point for buiometria partecipativ
- Nov. 16, 2018: Repubblica.it -A milder climate and artificial lighting alter tree resting
- Nov. 15, 2018- Do artificial lights alter the “rest” of the trees? (Italian Research Council press release)
- Artificial Night Lighting Reduces Firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Occurrence in Sorocaba, Brazil
- A Winter Fest where things happen, if at all, in the Summer
- EAN webinar on BuioMetria Partecipativa
- An evening to appreciate the night sky quality of Southern Tuscany
- Talk at the Emilio Sereni Summer School on rural development
- Happy sixth birthday, BuioMetria Partecipativa
- BMP @ Forca Canapine Star Party
- All the Secrets of Darkness at Casa del Quartiere (Il Tirreno Grosseto Edition, May 5, 19)
- Launch of the “buiometria light pollution simulator model”
- Let’s light up the stars!
- Launch of the “Between Dusk and Dawn” photo contest
- Berlin: meetings of the LONNE network
- Apr. 7, 2017: At the confluence of Farma and Cecina a webinar on geomatics, environment, and music
- Save the date: Sat. June 24, Buiometria Partecipativa in Gerfalco, Southern Tuscany
- From our night sky quality citizen scientists in Calabria
- Dec. 12, 2018: Winter Fest, the Farma Valley for the Explorers of Wonder
- The presentation of the 2011 Summer buiometric relay
- Parallel Convergence according to Colangelo
- Moonshine in Certopiano (Farma Valley, Southern Tuscany)
- The Construction of a “palla 21” Ball as Seen by Amateur Astronomers
- Light in Tuscany: only 7 new cases
- The Capraia Symposium on Protection and Promotion of the Night Sky, reloaded
- Unihedron data accessible in web-GIS form from the BMP project
- Article on “Tutti fotografi”
- Map(pear)ing Sardinia: mission accomplished
- The Proceedings of the Symposium on Protection and Promotion of the Night Sky (Capraia Island, Italy, 2018)
- Radio Popolare, La Banda on BMP
- BuioMetria Partecipativa for the Arte Clima project at Sequerciani (Southern Tuscany), Oct. 23, 2022
- Andrea Giacomelli (pibinko) with BuioMetria Partecipativa at the final Stars4all meeting
- Nov. 14, 2018 – BuioMetria 2018: the Countdown starts with Amish from Jack White (Il Tirreno Grosseto edition)
- Here we go with the Italian-language mailing list on protection and promotion of the night sky (proprocieno-it)
- The poster presented at the FOSS4G-IT conference (Feb. 9-10, 2017)
- BuioMetria Partecipativa (participatory night sky monitoring)
- Condensing the light pollution issue in one SMS
- Porto (Portugal): presentation on light pollution
- The first night sky quality monitoring campaign by the Museum of vine and wine in Roccastrada, Tuscany
- Buiometria Partecipativa in Sardinia
- “GeoMay” Day in Torniella-Piloni, Tuscany
- Darkness Conference at the Svalbard Islands, Jan. 15/16 2019: how did it go?
- Before the Biodiversity Festival
- Follonica, Tuscany, BMP event on the beach
- BuioMetria Partecipativa at the University of Pisa (May 16, 2017): how did it go?
- The Maira Sky Quality Meter is missing in action
- The first presentation in the “Blinded by light” format
- Apr. 20, Talks on Protection and Promotion of the Night Sky in Scansano, Tuscany
- Presentation at the 12th International Dark Sky Association
- BuioMetria Partecipativa will be in M’illumino di Meno 2024. Do you want to be with us?
- Jan. 23, 2017: Pula and Cagliari – lecture on “Participatory methods for protection and promotion of territories with an S in their name”
- The award by “La seconda luna” for BuioMetria Partecipativa
- May 23, 2011: Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Electronics / Lecture on BMP
- April 2008 – BuioMetria Partecipativa mentioned for the Seconda Luna Prize
- Presentation on BuioMetria Partecipativa in Manciano (Tuscany)
- BMP presentation in Vetulonia (Grosseto)
- Educational video on night sky quality and light pollution
- BMP presentation in Leicester, UK, for the 2n ALAN Conference
- BuioMetria Partecipativa once more touring Sardinia (starting from Tuscany), after four years
- Tutti con le luci spente per la ricerca. Così si misura il cielo dal balcone di casa (Il Tirreno, Grosseto Edition, Sep. 29, 2020)
- Capraia Night Sky 2018: How did it go?
- Take off from Fiumicino, Nov. 29, 2019, around 5PM
- Politecnico di Milano, May 30, 2017: Land protection and planning: interdisciplinary experiences from ten years of projects from a lesser known area of Southern Tuscany.
- Official report on the LoNNe Intercomparison campaign in Tuscany
- Culture, Environment, Open Innovation: opportunities for the Gulf of Angels, Sardinia
- A Video by CNR IBE Featuring a “BuioMetro” in the Svalbard Islands
- BuioMetria Partecipativa in Vetulonia, Southern Tuscany
- Participatory Approaches to Light Pollution Mitigation: a Case History from Italy
- Presentation on BuioMetria Partecipativa at the “La Maremma delle idee” event
- Jun. 15, 2017, Meet the BuioMetria Partecipativa project in Pisa, for a more aware use of artificial light at night
- Moonfest in Salaiola (Mount Amiata)
- Aktionsprogramm INSEKTENSCHUTZ! (don’t be scared)
- “The Sky is Everybody’s” – Metalliferous Hills Jug Band cover
- This is not “Photometrical” Water
- The BuioMetria Partecipativa Map now includes the CNR IBE Research Network
- March 30, 2016 in Montelupo (Florence): “Darkness and Light”
- L’Altro Lato (RAI Radio Due), Oct. 17, 2009
- Three technical recommendations from LoNNe on artificial light at night
- Sandwich Disco Club
- BMP at the annual CAAT meeting in Grosseto
The Game of Panforte according to Romano Granci from Casal di Pari
The BuioMetria Partecipativa project: from the Farma Valley (inner Southern Tuscany) to the HORIZON 2020 programme.
The BuioMetria Partecipativa was born in Spring 2008 in the woods of the Farma Valley, in Southern Tuscany (half way between Siena and Grosseto). While the project as a “local” approach among its priorities, since its first steps it was aiming at national and international connections:
- Since 2008 the project managed several international relations. Part of these are documented at https://www.pibinko.org/places
- Between 2009 and 2011 the progress of the project was presented in the main European event concerning night sky protection and promotion of night sky (the IDA Symposium)
- Between 2013 and 2016 the BuioMetria Partecipativa project represented Italy in the management committee of a European research network funded by the COST programme of the European Union (the Loss of the Night Network), together with some 18 countries, and with about 40 participating organisations. In the context of this project we also promoted Tuscany as the location for one of the sensor intercomparison campaigns and one of the network meetings (in collaboration with CNR IBIMET). This was in March 2015, and was covered by national media (Radio 24).
- Between 2017 and 2018, BuioMetria Partecipativa had a small grant from the Stars4all HORIZON 2020 project. Thanks to this, we were able to launch events in addition to those that we routinely manage. We also promoted the co-funding of an International symposium on the protection and the promotion of night sky . This was held on the island of Capraia in September 2018 and represented, as far as we know, the first event of this type held in Italy, at least since 2008.
On December 10 and 11, 2018, the final meeting of the Stars4all project was held in Madrid, Spain. The project had partners from Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, and Italy. In this context, Andrea Giacomelli presented a summary of the main activities conducted during the past two years, especially in collaboration with the communities of Torniella, Piloni, Scalvaia, the National Research Council’s Institute of Biometeorology, the University of Pisa and the professional photographer Federico Giussani.
The Madrid meeting, which BMP coupled with an independently organised outreach event on the evening of Dec. 11, was just before the third Farma Valley Winter Fest and the annual assembly of the Tuscan Amateur Astronomer Associations. Our presence in Spain was the opportunity to launch some initiatives which took place in Tuscany at the end of Fall 2018, and to announce a line of activity which we will work on between February and mid-June 2019.
BMP highlights from day 1 of the Stars4all meeting
For more information on the BuioMetria Partecipativa project, write to bmp@pibinko.org
Third Farma Valley Winter Fest: Day 3 and Epilogue
TO BE TRANSLATED
La terza giornata del Festival è stata tutto sommato defaticante rispetto alla seconda.
Abbiamo avuto la presenza di quattordici delegati del Coordinamento Associazioni Astrofile della Toscana, cui abbiamo avuto modo di presentare alcuni colleghi che non conoscevano, come il presidente della AAT (Associazione Astrofili di Torniella), il presidente della AAPB (Associazione Astrofili di Piloni-Bali), il presidente della AAS (Associazione Astrofili dei Sodarini) e altri presidenti.
Il convegno è stato comunque molto interessante, oltre che per i contenuti tecnici, integrati quest’anno dalla presenza di Luciano Massetti del CNR IBIMET di Firenze, anche per alcune considerazioni sulla relazione fra scienza e societĂ che sono emerse nella discussione….da approfondire meglio (possibilmente nella relazione sul festival).
Dopo il pranzo sociale presso la sede dell’AARCIB(Associazione Astrofili Ristorante Camere Il Boscaiolo), con annessi pici cacio e pepe, il digestivo è stato preso durante la dimostrazione di costruzione della pallina di Palla a 21 a cura di Ilo Ferrandi.
Si è deciso successivamente di annullare la visita alla B.M. lavorazioni meccaniche (uno dei due titolari, Alessandro Bartalucci, ha comunque interagito con i partecipanti), andando a svolgere l’assemblea CAAT con chiusura attorno alle 17.30 con una piccola jam session musicale. La cosa è stata facilitata dal fatto che il convegno si teneva nella sala musica dell’Associazione Filarmonica Popolare Torniella, e che essendo il ritrovo di piccole dimensioni, non era stato necessario levare la batteria per svolgere l’evento.
Salutati i delegati del CAAT sotto un nevischio incipiente (fortunatamente girato “a pioggia” dopo poco), due degli organizzatori, assieme ad altri paesani, sono andati a visitare l’antica bottega del falegname di Roberto Serragli a Scalvaia.
Nel corso delle prossime settimane sarĂ preparato un rapporto sul festival. Nel frattempo: per dubbi o domande sui tre giorni di pici, amore e musica (e cultura, ambiente e innovazione libera) in Val di Farma: info@pibinko.org
Epilogo (temporaneo)
The Construction of a “palla 21” Ball as Seen by Amateur Astronomers
“..are you making an asteroid?”
Video credits: Luz Marina Tinjaca Ramirez from CAAT (Coordinamento Associazioni Astrofile della Toscana) e ball construction credits to Ilo Ferrandi from Torniella.
Closing of the CAAT conference in Torniella, Southern Tuscany
TO BE TRANSLATED
Closing of the Annual CAAT Conference in Torniella, Tuscany, Dec. 16, 2018
This was the final part of the annual conference of CAAT, the Tuscan network of amateur astronomer associations.