LENSs
Lakeshore Environment and Night Sky Sensor
The ultimate goal of LENSS is to build and deploy a remotely-operable Sky Quality Meter that can take continuous measurements of how dark the skies are around Geneva Lake for the purpose of improving community engagement in the important health and safety issues associate with light pollution.
Active Sensors
WHAT IS LENSS?
The Lakeshore Environoment and Night Sky Senor project was launched in May 2019 as one the tech projects offered by GLAS Education for high school students interested in doing something positive for our community while learning first-hand about careers in STEM. Working with professionals in engineering, project management, coding, and design, students designed, constructed, and tested a remotely-operable sky quality meter. Quality skies are dark skies and they benefit wildlife, human health, boating safety, and our ability to see and study the universe from Walworth County.

Griffin Moon (Left) and Victoria Zaraza (Right) working on the sky quality meter in the GLAS workshop

Adam McCulloch from GLAS checking the sky quality sensor test.
LENSS – The special kind of Sky Quality Meter
See some of our LENSS results!
Our sensors are continuously taking data. With Python we’ve been able to plot the light freequency on a nightly basis. With this data, we hope to see a change in light pollution on a yearly basis.

Keeping the sky dark in Walworth county for everyone to enjoy.
LENSS is generously supported by:
Environmental Education Foundation
Geneva Lake Association
Walworth/Fontana Rotary


