Science and Arts Organisations are helping
spread the word and celebrate this year;
here are just a few to get you started.
On the official International Year of Light website there are activities for all ages.
http://www.light2015.org/Home/HandsOnInvolvement/100-light-outreach-activities/8.html
You may like to try
some of the following:
make an analemmatic (horizontal) sundial
http://www.instructables.com/id/Largedriveway-sidewalk-or-garden-sundial/
explore polarization
http://www.osa.org/osaorg/media/osa.media/
Membership/Explorations-in-Optics-July-2103.pdf
determine how light pollution affects the stars
using magnitude readers
http://www.globeatnight.org/dsr/dsee/
Dark%20Skies%20Activities/How%20
Light%20Pollution%20Affects%20the%20
Stars/How%20Light%20Pollution%20
Affects%20the%20Stars%20Activity.pdf
Anniversaries
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1000 years of Th
e Book of Optics
by Ibn A l Hay th
am (1015)
200 years of the
wav
theory of light by elength
Fresnel (1815)
150 years of the el
ec
theory of light by tromagnetic
Max well (1865)
100 years of gene
ral
by Einstein (1915) relativity
50 years since th
e discovery of th
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cosmic microwav
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by Penzias and W ckground
ilson (1965)
50 years since th
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of fibre optics in
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by Charles K ao (1 munications
965)
SPIE: The International Society for Optics and
Photonics http://spie.org/x109984.xml
has free activities and resources online and if
you vote for their Photograph of the Year before
August 15th you can be entered into a draw to win
a GoPro Camera http://spie.org/x108047.xml
Light: Beyond the Bulb is an open-source
international exhibition programme intended
to showcase amazing photographs of the wide
variety of light-based science being researched
today. http://lightexhibit.org/photoindex.html
NASA released a series of images of stars and
galaxies to mark the International Year of Light,
which the space agency hopes will “help spread
the word about the wonders of light.” http://
chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/iyl/
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However 2015 is more than just a celebration of