Help us to keep making science with the ISS at night
Since 2007, Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel has been working on light pollution and finally he had perform a thesis were the idea of the Cities at Night appear. With the help of José Gomez Castaño, Daniel Lombraña, other researchers and thousands of volunteers (detail here), he could make the final chapter about Cities at Night protect. The thesis is written in spanish, even there are an automated translation version to english.. You can help on the translation of it making a donation on the button or e-mail Alejandro to (alejasan dot 4t dot ucm dot es) to get involved on a cooperative translation. Now, we are working on the scientific articles and we don't have resources to do both things, even because Alejandro had worked without salary for two years.
Unfortunately, although we have no source of funding, except some sporadic to attend conferences or meetings sontribuciones, but nothing to pay for the essential work of project staff or for the purchase of equipment necessary for the realization. We want to improve the project and submit all heat results already available. But we need more resources. Can you imagine that the Hubble Space Telescope only make pretty pictures and science do with that data? That's what can happen now if we do not get resources to complete the preparation for the scientific exploitation of the data from the ISS. Therefore soon we launch a crowdfunding campaign to get resources temporarily until we get government funding.
We are waiting until the crowdfunding campaign is already launched to release the first results. But, if you try to find them, we have already published some Beta data. Get involved on the project and you will get access to this Beta versions. Contact us here.