ORP sky protection group membership application

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Due to light pollution and the commercial exploitation of the radio spectrum, astronomical observations and astronomical research are becoming increasingly threatened. It is therefore necessary to engage in efforts to mitigate the negative impacts of artificial electromagnetic interference (EMI) on astronomy, the environment, and society.

Here, we would like to request your participation in the Opticon-RadioNet Pilot (ORP) sky protection group by signing up for your participation in one or more ad hoc working groups using this questionnaire.

The ORP is a project supported by the European Commision and one of its activities is to create a regional initiative "Preserving the skies" with the aim to aid efforts mitigating EMI (light pollution through artificial light at night from the ground and from satellites and radio interference). The interventions foreseen are of regulatory and technical character, and can range from networking within our region to software or hardware development. While we are working from the perspective of astronomers and astronomy students, membership is open to everyone. The goal of the ORP sky protection group is to engage with and support other dark and quiet sky protection efforts, as well as to define its own activities, making use of the leverage that a consortium like the ORP can offer, but avoiding to create parallel efforts. Hence, all our activities are coordinated with the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference (CPS) and communicated with activities in the EAS.

For our purposes, we have created ad hoc working groups. The chairs of the working groups are meeting regularly to coordinate, and the whole ORP sky protection group will have regular online meetings (planned once every 3 months).

The actual working plan will be adopted to the needs of the sky protection group, and additional ad-hoc working groups can be created.

ORP members are especially requested to join the groups, but we are now open to participation from non-ORP members.

Your engagement in the ORP sky protection group by signing up for one or more ad-hoc working groups is highly appreciated.

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I would like to participate in the ORP sky protection group
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It is also possible to participate without affiliation to one group.

Yes

I would like to participate in the outreach and education ad-hoc working group *

Prepare and distribute information about EMI in the public, to astronomers, and students (chair: Gyula Józsa, MPIfR)

Yes

I would like to participate in the astronomy liaison ad-hoc working group *

Identify contact points and activities within astronomy (chair: Andreas Hänel, VdS and AG)

Yes

I would like to participate in the public affairs and government relations ad-hoc working group *

Identify contact points and intervention strategies with administrations (chair: Andrew Williams, ESO)

Yes

I would like to participate in the drafting ad-hoc working group *

Position papers and informational texts (chair: Gyula I. G. Józsa, MPIfR)

Yes

I would like to participate in the mitigation software ad-hoc working group *

Software to eliminate EMI from astronomical observations

Yes

I would like to participate in the mitigation hardware ad-hoc working group *

Technical measures to make observations robust against EMI (chair: Pietro Bolli, INAF)

Yes

I would like to participate in the EMI monitoring ad-hoc working group *

Observing and recording EMI (chair: Ioannis Antoniadis, FORTH Institute of Astrophysics)

Yes

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