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Bortle Dark-Sky Scale - Ireland, anywhere truly dark?

drunkmonkey · 2010-07-13 23:02:34

I'm just curious is anywhere in Ireland dark at night on the Dark Sky Scale (a no1) Link to scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_Dark-Sky_Scale Here's a great picture on a true dark night in Death Valley you can see the milky way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg Where would you need to go…

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14-07-2010 12:02am

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drunkmonkey

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I'm just curious is anywhere in Ireland dark at night on the Dark Sky Scale (a no1)

Link to scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_Dark-Sky_Scale

Here's a great picture on a true dark night in Death Valley you can see the milky way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg

Where would you need to go in Ireland to experience a true night sky with no false light, would you need to go a couple of hundred miles out to sea?

(If this is the wrong forum please move it but I couldn't think of anywhere else)

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#2 14-07-2010 9:40pm
Coles

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This is the best place I can think of.

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,594206,916824,4

As far north as possible, in a bowl surrounded by steep mountains.

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