Division XII / Commission 50 Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites
Abstract
The activities of the Commission have continued to focus on controlling unwanted light and radio emissions at observatory sites, monitoring of conditions at observatory sites, and education and outreach. Commission members have been active in securing new legislation in several locations to further the protection of observatory sites as well as in the international regulation of the use of the radio spectrum and the protection of radio astronomical observations.
- Publication:
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Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Series A
- Pub Date:
- April 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312003171
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUTA..28..408V