In most heavily populated cities of the world, the act of stargazing is quickly becoming a thing of whispered legend. Increased light pollution consumes the lions-share of the viewable night sky. That may be ok for some curmudgeon city-dwellers, but some folks didn’t want to take that fact lying down (pun sort of intended). Enter The Windmill Factory’s Reflecting the Stars:

Reflecting the Stars uses wirelessly controlled solar-powered LED lamps to recreate our night sky on the decaying posts of Pier 49 in the Hudson River at Bank Street in Manhattan. The project is free to the public and will be a featured highlight of NYC climate week September 19 – 26. Nightly, a set of 201 lights twinkle in various patterns as the tides conceal and reveal the lights. Visitors on shore can press buttons, which highlight constellations within the lights that are no longer seen in urban centers because of air and light pollution.

So, now you can wish upon a star and actually see it. Who’d have thunk it?

Oh yea. . . . Nature.

Links to consider: http://www.thewindmillfactory.com/reflecting_the_stars.html