{"id":44559,"date":"2023-05-17T14:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/?post_type=purple_issue&#038;p=44559"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T12:13:01","slug":"dark-skies-champion-bob-mizon-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/2023\/05\/17\/dark-skies-champion-bob-mizon-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark skies champion Bob Mizon passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo\"><figure class=\"no-tts aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"871\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-44558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7.jpg 871w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7-768x626.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><figcaption>Bob Mizon (right) presenting\u00a0the Commission for Dark Skies personal award to Cranborne Chase AONB director Linda Nunn. Bob helped Cranbourne Chase AONB achieve Dark Sky status in 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\"><strong>Dark-sky campaigner <\/strong>Bob Mizon, who spent many years fighting to protect the night from light pollution, passed away on 19 April.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">Born in 1946, Mizon helped to establish the British Astronomical Association\u2019s Commission for Dark Skies (CfDS) in 1989 and became its national coordinator soon after its inception. In this role, he promoted responsible lighting throughout the UK and Europe. He was instrumental in helping Cranborne Chase AONB achieve its status as an International Dark Sky Reserve, and was one of the instigators of the UK government\u2019s All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dark Skies. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">He spent 26 years working as a French teacher, during which time he helped run school astronomy clubs and translated French astronomy books into English, before becoming a full-time planetarium operator in 1996. Nearly 150,000 children and adults all&nbsp;<span>over Britain experienced Mizon\u2019s infectious enthusiasm for astronomy and nature in the Mizar Travelling Planetarium.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">His work was officially acknowledged when he was awarded an MBE for voluntary services to astronomy and the environment in 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/britastro.org\/dark-skies\">britastro.org\/dark-skies<\/a> <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"footer\">PHOTO: CFDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mizon helped Cranbourne Chase AONB achieve Dark Sky status in 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":44558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","purple_page_number":"14","purple_custom_meta_purple_page_number":"14","purple_seq_number":"2","purple_custom_meta_purple_seq_number":"2","purple_source_article":"article_14-2.xml","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_article":"article_14-2.xml","purple_source_issue":"June-2023","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_issue":"June-2023","purple_external_id":"June-2023-14-2","purple_custom_meta_purple_external_id":"June-2023-14-2","purple_issue_code":"|0000086565||","purple_custom_meta_purple_issue_code":"|0000086565||","purple_android_product":"com.im.skyatnight.217","purple_custom_meta_purple_android_product":"com.im.skyatnight.217","purple_ios_product":"com.im.skyatnight.217","purple_custom_meta_purple_ios_product":"com.im.skyatnight.217","purple_web_product":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_web_product":"","purple_publication_id":"075fab74-0a21-4201-866a-899d6c41c40c","purple_migrated":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[14],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1","apple_news_title":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7.jpg",871,710,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7-300x245.jpg",300,245,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7-768x626.jpg",768,626,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7.jpg",800,652,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7.jpg",871,710,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/05\/6b276b4c-eec8-42d3-90f3-dd5d16fa48d7.jpg",871,710,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Mizon helped Cranbourne Chase AONB achieve Dark Sky status in 2017","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45431,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44559\/revisions\/45431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}