I miss the dark
I went into the garden tonight and I could see perfectly, but in shades of grey. Our orange street lights have been replaced with white ones but no shades were added to minimise light pollution. I miss the stars and the dark.
I live in London. Where is the closest place I can go to see the stars - apart from the planetarium?
I live in London. Where is the closest place I can go to see the stars - apart from the planetarium?
In London. Keen but lazy.
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I've never heard of a dark sky reserve. What a wonderful idea!
What's so frustrating here is that, for little extra expense and more efficiency, they could have put hoods on the lights when they renewed them.
My back garden is a fair distance from street lights, but there is no darkness, only absence of colour.
We're quite spoiled up here for dark skies. Lots of areas with low populations and low light pollution. Galloway, in southern Scotland, is a well known dark sky area. You can often see the Northern Lights there too. Something I would like to do.
Bit far for you to travel though
Looking a a light pollution map is a bit depressing.
Or am I falling?
Our last house was also in the country but on the road between village and town so they had orange sodium lights. Ghastly. Belgium has, I reckon, more streetlights per head of population than any other country in Europe tho they do now turn off a lot of the motorway lights.
Have a look at this map - http://www.darkskydiscovery.org.uk/dark-sky-discovery-sites/map.html