galloway forest park - dark-sky park!

[wrogers]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6887233.ece

might have to book next years holiday!!!

apparently the first dark-sky park outside the USA!

Will

[sunnydale]

Yes, I saw the story on BBC News this morning. Looks a great place to go to get good views of the sky.

Having said that, you don't have to go all the way to Scotland to see the Milky Way

[Doggle Avaddit]

I remember vividly seeing the Milky Way properly for the first time - one cold night camping in Wales about 25 years ago. I had no idea you could see that many stars with the naked eye. Never seen the sky look like that since, it was indeed an amazing sight.

[Rich_]

I remember staying in a caravan not far from The Galloway forest when comet Hale Bopp was visible, and because of the lack of light polution it was spectacular! The tail was mich brighter and many, many times longer than I had seen from anywhere else where it just looked like a fuzzy blob.It seemed to stretch half way across the sky. It is a very sparsely populated area, with a lot of miles between towns and villages.

[Rich_]

Originally Posted by wrogers

might have to book next years holiday!!!

Will

I know of someone with some nice self catering accommodation in that area if you do..

[Kleftiwallah]

I remember as a small boy (as Fred Dibnah says), going to buy fags for 'me Dad' in a new housing estate (Scaws Estate in Penrith) and I could see the milky way even with the rudimentary street lighting, but it was in the mid sixties.......Cheers, Tony.