Dark Skies

[Scotia]

I’m up in the Cairngorms the weather’s amazing pure blue skys but you felt like you could almost touch the stars last night. Once seen a UFO up here but that’s a different Story

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Was that a whisky trip?

 

[Scotia]

We have no street lighting in our village, but light polution from surrounding villages and towns makes a big differance.

We are in the hills.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Kielder.

 

[runnach]

My first dark sky experience was Wadi Rum, Jordan . We slept the night at a Bedouin camp. A dark night experience never to be forgotten. Shooting stars flying around like fireworks!

 

[trevskoda]

We have no street lighting in our village, but light polution from surrounding villages and towns makes a big differance.

Pay the rates skinflint.

 

[Scotia]

Pay the rates skinflint.

You still have to contribute trev.

 

[colinm]

Pay the rates skinflint.

Because our house looks pretty we get stung for high council tax, and to 'add insult to injury' at one time they used a photo of our house on a leaflet promoting the area.

 

[Okta]

Well done Hawnby but I don’t think they are the first village in England to do something about Dark Skies. Bury in the South Downs has been applying a Dark Skies Policy since 2017. Probably why I was able to spot an Aurora earlier this year.

 

[Scotia]

Well done Hawnby but I don’t think they are the first village in England to do something about Dark Skies. Bury in the South Downs has been applying a Dark Skies Policy since 2017. Probably why I was able to spot an Aurora earlier this year.View attachment 119291

You are needing to clear your lense, there are white dots all over the picture.

 

[Adam]

Hawnby in North Yorkshire is the first village in England to turn down its lightning systems so you can see the stars.
My simplistic summing up of an interesting article. There are other places in Wales and Scotland but this seems to be the first English village.
I hope to visit some of these places this year. Looking at the sky is awesome, the immensity, the quantity of stars ect. Better than tv.

Kielder forest & Kielder campsite (at Kielder village) are famous for its dark skies.
I have known the campsite to have 'Dark Skies' events where they have bought in astronomers who explains all we can see and allows the use of telescopes etc.

And for the daytime, fantastic woodland walks & cycling through the forest & around the lake

 

[Mothership]

I agree ! …. Im still looking to buy a decent telescope and have joined a local star gazing group. I’ll never tire of watching the night sky, the best sight I ever saw was the Milky Way on a cliff in Helston, never seen anything like it !

Maybe meet up somewhere sometime, always with us eveywhere