Remi Boucher
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Remi Boucher
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Working at the Mont-Megantic International Dark Sky Reserve / National Park / ASTROLab. Self-proclaimed swiss army knife against #lightpollution.

Also interested in science, space, maps, photography, trailrunning, splitboard and more.
Some people are already looking at this difference between overcast and clear on some species.
For example : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Skyglow relieves a crepuscular bird from visual constraints on being active
Artificial light at night significantly alters the predictability of the natural light cycles that most animals use as an essential Zeitgeber for dail…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Here's the TESS-W data from the same moment. I had just installed the photometer over there on that day.

tess.dashboards.stars4all.eu/d/tess_raw/s...

Similar effects could probably be detected from mountain tops, when there's fog over cities in the valley
Grafana
tess.dashboards.stars4all.eu
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🤣
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm used to the usual effect of clouds (reflection of light pollution, darkening of the natural sky), but it's interesting to see the zenith being darker than "normal" once the sky overhead cleared but Montreal was still covered, and that the zenith became brighter once the sky cleared over Montreal
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This reminds me of a very interesting observation a couple in 2022:
While taking SQC measurements from a park in Montreal's suburbs, I noticed that the zenith became darker just after the clouds cleared overhead but were still covering Montreal (2nd image). The clouds acted like a blanket over MTL
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Not being able to attend #ALAN2025 this year, I was looking for someone there posting with the hashtag but didn’t find much :/
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
By the way, while these decorative street lights do have a prismatic lens, they are better than they might seem and emit ~120 lm of uplight (2.5%)
June 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Don’t
June 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Try a fresh one in Montreal next time
May 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Using a LLM to generate this would fit into their agenda of using AI to run the government. That’s basically what DOGE is trying to do across the US government systems.
April 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Here's map where you can see the light pollution and the locations of the different photometers (not all of them are on the graph).
March 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Each line represent a different photometer. Some of them are located in very dark places with almost no light pollution, and some are closer to cities. This is why some get more dark than others during the eclipse.
March 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What a fucking moron.
March 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Don’t blame the « media ». I’ve seen many articles about this issue in the last year, and from many large media around the world. www.ft.com/content/29fd...
A new global gender divide is emerging
Young men and young women’s world views are pulling apart. The consequences could be far-reaching
www.ft.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
They should click the « report as spam » email button
February 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Ça montre à quel point ces gens ne sont qu’en opposition et ne cherchent qu’à contredire tout ce qu’ils voient.
February 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM