What we do

What we do

Since the creation of the Stars4all Foundation, thanks to the subsidy granted by the European Union, to the project called “A Collective Awareness Platform for Promoting Dark Skies in Europe”, continuous quality work has been done to providing high-quality TESS-W instruments around the world and generating an open database.

But our work goes further. Thanks to the professional researchers who make up the Foundation, together with a network of volunteers, and renowned collaborators in the field of light pollution, we carry out great informative work, being present at the most important meetings and European projects.

Our approach

The foundation maintains and develops a program of improvement of the project’s original data infrastructure STARS4ALL. Every month data continues to be uploaded to the Zenodo community for free use by researchers, with more than 250 active photometers.

The foundation has contributed to the advice of various public administrations. This has been the case in Madrid, Spain, with members of several political parties of the Community of Madrid, a working group of experts from the Ministry of Industry for the development of public lighting standards.

  1. Organization in collaboration with the Spanish Presidency of the European Union, of “Meeting on Light Pollution: Challenges and Responses for monitoring it” carried out at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia on 2023/11/14 in Granada. This event was international category. Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel was president of the Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) and the RED2022-134733-T project contributed to its financing.
  2. “Monitoring with ground based photometers (my personal experience)”, guest lecture by Jaime Zamorano. Meeting on Light Pollution: Challenges and Responses for monitoring it”, Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia 2023/11/14 Granada, Spanish Presidency of the European Union. 
  3. Talk “Photometry with DSLR cameras and color cameras”; Jaime Zamorano & Nicolás Cardiel at the headquarters of the Madrid Astronomical Group 09/26/2023 online talk and in person.

Read more

NightWatch project with the European Space Agency, executed during 2023 thanks to the hiring of Héctor Linares. Some of the most relevant results of this project have been Linares, H., Kyba, C. C., Abascal, A., Degen, T., Simoneau, A., Hölker, F., … &; Walczak, K. (2023, August). Night Watch, a New Earth Observation Mission Idea Theme: Technology and Design. In 8th international conference on artificial light at night (ALAN (pp. pp-132)., Linares Arroyo, H., Abascal, A., Aubé, M., Degen, T., Espey, B. R., Gyuk, G., … &; Kyba, C. C. M. (2024). Light pollution trends, impacts, and the future of its observation. Nature Reviews Earth &; Environment.

  1. REECL (Spanish Network of Light Pollution Studies), where the trustees Gallego, Sánchez de Miguel and Zamorano, belonging to the group of the Complutense University of Madrid, coordinate the REECL and the funds assigned to it by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (project code RED2022-134733-T , IP Gallego).
  2. STARLIGHT Foundation
  3. The European project INTERREG V-A MAC 2014-2020 EELabs
  4. European project Interreg Europe NIGHT LIGHT
  5. Transversal project Extremadura Good Night of the Government of Extremadura
  6. Community Friendly Night Lighting Initiative from Madrid
  7. Área de Asuntos Europeos, Energía y Turismo de la Diputación de Ávila, como socios del proyecto Europeo Interreg Europe NIGHT LIGHT