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![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107212950im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) Press Release 08-180 Star Count Goes Global
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Light pollution to be mapped by thousands of citizen scientists this month
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![Illustration and text: Great World Wide Star Count, Oct. 20 - Nov. 3, 2008, Windows to the Universe](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107212950im_/http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/star_count1_f.jpg) |
Participants in the Great Worldwide Star Count will help discover how light pollution is obscuring constellations in the night sky.
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![Star map showing the constellation Cygnus.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107212950im_/http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/star_count2_f.jpg) |
Star-watchers in the Northern Hemisphere will track the constellation Cygnus.
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