The red sun sets in the west and the sunset disperses, and the sky turns from blue to deep blue, connecting with the deep sea below.

After Chang Gung Star appeared, the top of his head became lively again, and every time he looked up, he could see a new star appear above the canopy.

If your eyesight is good enough, your brain is strong enough, and you can even see a string of bright spots rising from the northeast and flowing west through the zenith, but it is the legendary Milky Way.

On the east coast, under the starry sky, people looked away from the stage performance, looked up at the starry sky, and marveled at it.

Those with poor eyesight also gathered in front of the telescope at the edge of the field to look up, praising and exclaiming for the starry sky that had not been seen clearly for a long time. The sound drifted away in the wind and finally entered Atletico's ears.

Seeing him looking out of the car window, his eyes stayed on those people, and the middle-aged man sitting opposite him said, "Ma Dong, you can rest assured now, right?"

"Hmm," Atletico nodded slightly, retracting his gaze and looking at the other party, "It seems that everyone likes the night sky here." I have to thank you for them!"

"It should be," the middle-aged man on the other side smiled modestly, "as long as everyone likes it." Of course, it would be better if we could come more often in the future, and we had a great view during the day. ”

This afternoon, Atletico Madrid's Super Snail visited Zhangpu and finally sailed into the Marina Volcano Geopark. Located about 100 kilometers from Egret Island, it is one of the first national geoparks to be established with the characteristics of igneous rock relics formed thousands of years ago. But he wasn't here for the spectacular basalt columns, but for the clear night sky above him.

Since hearing that the Bee Group was going to come to the scenic spot to do activities, Mei Zhe asked people to put off other work and set up a reception liaison group at the county magistrate's meeting, requiring that the friendship of the landlord be fulfilled and the guests have a happy and comfortable time. Even he himself came to accompany him as soon as Atletico arrived.

It's no wonder that he is so concerned, as the head of the administration, he is the first person responsible for the economic development of the county. Zhangpu's GDP last year was only 28.6 billion yuan, while Bees' income last year was 145 billion yuan, which is four times more, not to mention, the gap in actual disposable funds is even greater. If you can talk about moving Atletico Madrid and pull in one or two projects, this year's GDP growth figures will definitely blind the surrounding counties.

The meaning of the other party's words, Atletico naturally understands. However, he couldn't make a promise easily, and just politely said, "It's natural." As long as time and weather permit, we will bring more activities to Zhangpu in the future. ”

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Mei Zhe also understood it in his heart.

Don't look at the fact that tonight is clear and windless, the air is clear and stable, which is very suitable for stargazing and viewing, but this is an abnormal situation that is difficult to replicate. According to the normal climate, April ~ September is the local rainy season, the air is humid and rainy, and there are typhoons and rains from time to time, which is not a good season for travel and sightseeing, looking up at the starry sky.

The reason for the rare sunny weather in the past two days is entirely due to Typhoon No. 18 "Telly", which has just passed and is creating a large rain belt inland, but leaving a clear and hot area dominated by downdrafts behind it.

County Magistrate Mei only came out of the county's three-defense headquarters the day before yesterday, and it is impossible not to know about the typhoon. However, he still pretended not to understand someone's meaning, and said with a smile: "That's good, I welcome on behalf of the local elders!"

"Old fox!" said in his heart, Atletico nodded, "I really can't forget the sacrifice of the local fathers, I have written down this favor." ”

"What kind of sacrifice is this?" Mei Zhe was secretly happy in his heart, but said politely: "It's just to save energy and reduce consumption, and practice green life." Even if it's not your business, everyone is happy. ”

Raising his hand to look at the time, Atletico got up with a smile and invited: "It's almost time, let's go out and see the results of green life together!"

The other party had no choice but to smile and nod, and walked out of the RV with Atletico Madrid, and walked along the LED strip lit path to the east lawn to round out with the big team, ready to start tonight's activities.

Green life is not just talking, the Geopark is significantly darker than usual at the moment, most of the lighting is turned off, and only a faint light can be seen. Not only in the park, but also several hotels in the west and distant villages and towns are hidden in the night, and you need to be carefully identified to discover.

Naturally, these are the result of a mobilization of local officials to artificially create a dark sky for astronomy enthusiasts from all over the country to enjoy.

When they grew up and had the money to buy binoculars and SLR cameras, they were depressed to find that the stars above the city were becoming more and more difficult to see, so they could only carry their equipment and go to places far away from the city, such as here on the coast of the East China Sea.

It's just that those who are keen to chase the dark sky are only a small number of people for the time being.

In the eyes of most ordinary people, night lights mean more safety, convenience, prosperity and beauty, which can be seen from the fact that the Light Pollution Map is translated into "night satellite light map" and "night version of the world map" in China.

Although in the eyes of astronomy enthusiasts, those shiny areas are light pollution, there are still countless ordinary netizens who relish the pictures, some envy Europe and the United States, some people lament the fact that the fat and fat family is a little bright, and some people argue endlessly about "why is India bright...... But few people see it as a nuisance.

Even astronomers and hobbyists can't go against the needs of hundreds of millions of ordinary people and demand that cities become the dark they were a hundred years ago. What they can do is to call on the state and local governments to pay attention to light control by publicizing the "light pollution problem", and then set up dark sky protection areas in suitable places to preserve the last pure land for astronomical observation and nocturnal animals.

Strictly speaking, the volcanic park on the southern edge of the Luzhangming Triangle also has severe light pollution and is not the most suitable location for stargazing.

The night here is only darker than on Heron Island, and although there are many stars, it is not a complete version. If you want to see the stars, constellations and the Milky Way clearly, you still have to run farther and look for sparsely populated places with clean air, such as the area around the new astronomical station this year - the old station is not good, and it is too close to the city to be abandoned by light pollution.

This is obviously not an easy thing to do, light pollution is a byproduct of urban belts, and staying away from light pollution also means staying away from urban belts and livable areas. Astronomers and true enthusiasts can endure loneliness for their ideals and hobbies, and go to the mountains, grasslands, plateaus, and polar regions just to wait for the quiet and beautiful bright starry sky, but ordinary enthusiasts cannot persist for a long time, and the same is true for the participants of the "Bee Starry Sky Festival".

After comprehensive consideration, the organizers did not choose a foreign dark sky reserve, nor did they contact the dark sky reserve on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but searched for it nearby, and finally found the nearby Zhangpu County. Taller inside, you can see most of the bright stars here, which is already a few levels stronger than the urban area of Ludao, plus iFi, 4G signal and convenient accommodation, the comfort level is much stronger than running long distances to the grassland and plateau.

Of course, the reason why I didn't go to those places is also related to the bees' bad reputation in astronomical circles.

Bees have been interested in space, the universe, and astronomy for a long time. First, it specialized in the development of supercomputer programs used to simulate the operation of the starry sky, so that the realistic starry sky became the default configuration of bee 3D games, and later established a space development company to launch the "Star Eye" and "Hundred Eyes" microsatellite constellations to observe the universe and the earth, and last year also sponsored Sarah Brightman to go to the International Space Station to play a song, and announced the filming of the space science fiction TV series "Space Miner", such a technology company with a great cosmic vision, should have become a good friend of the astronomical circle.

However, the bee did something that made the public angry. Without the consent of the IAU (International Astronomical Union), they gave the naming rights of cosmic objects to their users, and users can have the right to rename a star as long as they meet certain conditions, and the changes are generally valid for bee-based games and applications.

This card was played, which instantly attracted great attention at home and abroad, and the number of users involved before and after tens of millions, and finally more than 1 million people obtained the naming rights. Tonight's "Starry Sky Ceremony" is the annual summary of this star naming event. 300 user representatives from all over the world gathered here to celebrate this historic moment.

While Bees has greatly increased the activity of its games and apps, it has also offended astronomers around the world.

If you simply change the name of the star in a game, people don't bother to pay attention to this kind of "enclosure and self-sprouting" behavior, but Bee has expanded the change to its application with great fanfare, but it has the meaning of dominating the guests and copycat counterattack, so no one can not be annoyed.

Although Bee put forward many reasons, explaining that this was done to crack down on copycat naming companies and promote astronomical knowledge, and also preventively separated the user-version of the star name from the official name, not only to download the plug-in separately, but also to highlight the "unofficial naming" annotation, but it was only limited acceptance by enlightened scholars, and many people still expressed their refusal to accept the strange names such as "EXO Lay", "ROY2000", and "Vietnamese Fan Star", and many people angrily uninstalled the Bee catalog application.

These names are naturally the masterpieces of celebrity fan groups, and entertainment stars have the name "star" on their heads, and they have a preference for naming stars. At least double-digit stars at home and abroad have won the honor of "leaving a name in space".

However, in order to ensure the seriousness of science, the IAU has formulated strict rules for the naming of celestial bodies, and stars, nebulae, galaxies, etc. are given numeric and alphabetic names according to custom, and only newly discovered asteroids in the solar system can be named by discoverers.

If you want to "leave a name in space", you need to find and convince the person who discovered the asteroid, and the latter will take the initiative to apply for approval by the Small Celestial Nominating Committee of the IAU. If adopted, it will be notified by the International Minor Planet Center and included in the annual Ephemeris of the Planetary Ephemeris and NASA's Asteroid Database.

Because newly discovered asteroids need to be confirmed by peers and new names need to be approved, a process that often takes years.

The formal process is too slow and there is a high threshold, and even if you put effort into achieving your goal, the final "star" is only a large rock hundreds of millions of kilometers away, which needs to be seen with the help of a large astronomical telescope, which inevitably makes people feel uninteresting.

When a demand arises, it is natural that someone will come out and find a way to meet the demand.

There are many star naming rights auction websites at home and abroad, and anyone can take a picture of a shining star and change it to their own name by paying a small amount of money of a few tens of dollars. As proof, the purchaser will receive a certificate in English, signed and numbered, and some will also support "online queries", which will look like it.

This kind of certificate is essentially no different from the "irrigation certificate" and "singles' certificate" that were once popular on the Internet, and has no authority at all, and can only be used for self-entertainment and to deceive outsiders who do not know how to do it. With the entry of Taobao merchants, the price of "star naming rights" has dropped from dozens of dollars all the way to 108 yuan.

In fact, the "astral auction" of bees is also like this, it is also impossible to get the authorization of the IAU, and it is also self-entertainment.

However, the "naming benefits" given by bees are much kinder, and the naming right is effective for the entire bee system, which can not only be seen in the game, but also appear on the star catalog software produced by beesoft, which looks much more formal than that kind of empty certificate, and then it has rightly attracted great attention from the entertainment industry.

Modern celebrity fan groups are funded, organized, and staffed, far from being a mass of ordinary users who can compete with each other. With the successive entry of major fan groups, well-known celestial bodies continue to be hung with celebrity names, and although ordinary users try their best to resist, they only keep the sun, the earth and the moon. If it weren't for the fan group fighting for the naming rights of the solar system and the twelve constellations, the "fan interstellar war" would have been lost.

In the end, the bee official had to urgently revise the rules, separating the "entertainment industry catalog" from the "ordinary people's catalog", and at the same time announced that it would launch the "Star Festival" offline event to divert attention, so as to barely suppress this interstellar war.

As for kicking out the celebrity fan group, bees won't do it. Because of the lack of endorsements, advertisements and content cooperation, the relationship between bees and the entertainment industry, especially the film and television industry, is not very good, and even with it, it is also resisted by their fans. There are too many missed classes in the area of celebrity marketing, and this time I unintentionally inserted willows and brought half of the entertainment industry, so naturally I can't let it go easily. Bee Mobile and Bee Electronics have broken the convention of not signing spokespersons, and have taken the initiative to contact relevant celebrities, intending to jointly launch Star Commemorative Edition products and make money happily together.

is famous and beneficial, and the relevant celebrities will naturally not refuse, not only readily agree, but many also come to the scene in their personal names. If it weren't for the fact that the blue, green, orange and red companies had signed too many celebrities, resulting in these people being unable to attend the bee's event due to endorsement agreements, celebrities from all walks of life alone would be able to give Bao Yuan the invitation to this event.