[biggerten]

I happen to own a couple telescopes.

Let me ask you. Would you welcome all night loud parties next door to your home? No, it would interfere with your right to enjoy your property, and that is a reasonable purpose to have noise regulations.

I don't welcome all night bright lights next door to my property, because it interferes with my right to enjoy my property. No difference.

If you keep your light to yourself, have at it. Just don't shine it in the direction of my telescopes.

[driftdiver]

"If you keep your light to yourself, have at it. Just don't shine it in the direction of my telescopes."

And what are your telescopes doing pointed at my lights? Hmmmmm, me thinks those aren't stars you be lookin at. :)

[sully777]

Let me ask you. Would you welcome all night loud parties next door to your home? No, it would interfere with your right to enjoy your property, and that is a reasonable purpose to have noise regulations.

I don't welcome all night bright lights next door to my property, because it interferes with my right to enjoy my property. No difference.

If you keep your light to yourself, have at it. Just don't shine it in the direction of my telescopes.

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New laws to go into effect: Light trespassing ping

You're actually making the illogical comparison between all-night parties and your inability to look through a small telescope? Our second neo-luddite surfaces.

Your question seeks to side step the fact that you wish to legislate behavior that effects a miniscule minority based on unscientific assumptions of "harm to environment" and "minority rights"

[Sofa King]

"I don't welcome all night bright lights next door to my property, because it interferes with my right to enjoy my property."

Your house is disrupting the flow of my Chi. Better tear it down.

[Thermalseeker]

If you keep your light to yourself, have at it. Just don't shine it in the direction of my telescopes.

I concur. What amazes me is there are so many people afraid of the dark as evidenced by all the street lights. Personally, I like by property being dark at night. It makes it easier to see the 'perps with flashlights......

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I understand that one!

I have for a long time done some star gazing, although not as much as some people, and have an 8 inch dob. When I first started getting into some nice and dark skies, I realized I was having trouble recognizing some constellations, because they had more stars in them than I was used to seeing!

My dad moved down to Jeff Davis county in Texas in part because of the dark skies.

[VanDeKoik]

Exactly! I don't get where people are getting the idea that it a step from communism to point your over powered floodlights towards the ground, on your own property, instead of across the street into my face.