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This one from Sussex University Twitter might help.

Have you started a petition to Sussex University, to get them to stop light pollution?

Googled photos of the universities. https://www.gyouryself.com/project/checkland-building-university-of-brighton/ 1113170508344897537

Put that light out.

The lights haven’t changed, but clouds change every day/night.

You have just proved the point. You noticed it for the first time in the past week, when exactly the same lights on the same pitch, have been operating all the winter months, for eight years. What’s the difference? A low cloud, foggy atmospheric condition.

As has been pointed out before, low cloud cover, and foggy conditions magnify the brightness like a huge mirror. Take another photo on a clear night, and it won’t be anything like the same. That doesn’t suit those who want to sensationlise it.

You don’t normally see the Amex lights from the sea front. A few days old low cloud cover reflecting it has caused widespread condemnation for something we’ve been doing for 8 years at Falmer and started doing at Withdean. Where were all the protestors with pitchforks then? I saw one...

The light pollution is also caused by Sussex & Brighton university, and the A27 lighting. If you turn off every light at the Amex, and stand in Stanmer Park, I doubt you’d see more than half a dozen stars. But it’s all the fault of the club, apparently.

The above was on the previous page taken two years ago with similar cloud levels.

They are the same lights the club have used all the time. In the last few days, the very low cloud cover has magnified the glow. That’s all it is.

Nothing has changed in the eight years those lights have been there. It’s just band wagon jumping.

I love watching the shooting stars in August, the Perseids (I think). We just get in the car, drive 4 miles east to the Cuckmere river, and problem solved. No light pollution.

They do. It gets merged as clouds don't discriminate. :lolol:

This came up at the public inquiry when we were still trying to get planning permission. There is a six lane road, and a railway station already at the location, so a few grass growing machines don't add much to that except when clouds are acting like a giant mirror reflecting it.

Light pollution means you cannot see the stars. You can't see the stars when it is very cloudy. You can only see a strong reflection from the Amex lights when it is very low cloud. :facepalm:

It's just a bit brighter at the moment due to low cloud cover reflecting it.

It only happens when there is a depression in the weather, causing low cloud cover. The Amex has been open since 2011, and it happens occasionally. It will all be forgotten in a couple of weeks, the same as it was last winter and the winter before.

Low cloud cover, so the clouds are reflecting the glow, causing a brighter light.