Europe's first "dark sky park"

Interesting site to visit, I've heard of it before and is a well known dark area.
As per usual in the north atlantic, the big variable is the weather. You think we get rain here??, its actually worse in Scotland.
Have you seen this link,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_of_the_Awful_Hand
What a cool looking area, not a tree in sight, I could stay up there in a tent for a week if the weather was reasonable, B&B otherwise.
I'd be game if others were going. :rock:
although it breaks my golden rules on holidaying/observing.

Never go anywhere for observing if its wetter, further north and looks green on a satellite image. :silly:


Jeremy Lazell sure as hell picked a bad weekend for observing :laugh:

Well spotted Conn.
Here is the online text:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destina...null&offset=0&page=1

It's great to see Ireland getting a mention.
I think it's time to plan that trip we were discussing above!!

Sometimes I despair.

Galloway recently became the first Dark Sky park in Europe. Now, we have darker skies in parts of this country and better weather. But there is more enthusiasm here to go on a trip to Galloway than there is to do something like work to get an dark skies reserve here. Then again this is a forum where the is a thread advocating light polluted skies for astronomy.

I've approached the NI Forestry Commission with a view to getting the same status for Glenariff Forest Park in NI. I'd suggest you guys in the South probably have even darker places you could nominate.

Paul.

Indeed, what about the Burren as just one example?

albertw wrote:

Sometimes I despair.

Galloway recently became the first Dark Sky park in Europe. Now, we have darker skies in parts of this country and better weather. But there is more enthusiasm here to go on a trip to Galloway than there is to do something like work to get an dark skies reserve here. Then again this is a forum where the is a thread advocating light polluted skies for astronomy.

Albert - I'm sure that if ILPAC came up with a couple of candidates here in Ireland you would have the full support of all the folks on this forum. If there is anything we can do to engage in such an exercise, we're all ears and we'd be fully supportive.

I think the thread you refer to was hardly advocating light pollution - perhaps one or two individuals expressed a positive opinion on light pollution but that's hardly indicative of this forum in general and the contributors as a whole supporting such a view...

Cheers
Dave