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2. Escaping light pollution: Stargazing is amazing in these ...

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   More than 99% of Americans live under skies polluted by light. But dark skies at the Grand Canyon and more than 145 other spots offer stargazing awe.

3. Bortle scale - Wikipedia

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   The Bortle dark-sky scale (usually referred to as simply the Bortle scale) is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky's brightness of a particular location. It quantifies the astronomical observability of celestial objects and the interference caused by light pollution .

4. Dark Skies (2013 film) - Wikipedia

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   Dark Skies is a 2013 American science fiction horror film written and directed by Scott Stewart, produced by Jason Blum under his Blumhouse Productions banner, and starring Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo and J. K. Simmons. [5] [6] Dark Skies was released in the United States on February 22, 2013, by Dimension Films.

5. Where to find dark skies – the best stargazing spots in the ...

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   Yorkshire Dales National Park is the largest Dark Sky Reserve in the UK. With such a huge expanse of unpolluted sky, you can see up to 2,000 stars anywhere in the park – even in the villages ...

6. Night sky - Wikipedia

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   Paranal Observatory nights. [3] The concept of noctcaelador tackles the aesthetic perception of the night sky. [4]Depending on local sky cloud cover, pollution, humidity, and light pollution levels, the stars visible to the unaided naked eye appear as hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of white pinpoints of light in an otherwise near black sky together with some faint nebulae or clouds ...

7. Jizera Dark-Sky Park - Wikipedia

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   The Jizera Dark Sky Park (Polish: Izerski Park Ciemnego Nieba - IPCN, Czech: Jizerská oblast tmavé oblohy - JOTO) is the first transnational dark-sky preserve. It is located in a nearly-uninhabited region of the Jizera Mountains that lies halfway between Poland and the Czech Republic .

8. What is a dark sky place? Here's where to find the best ... - AOL

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   Here are some of the best places to see dark skies full of stars in or near Ohio.

9. Dark-sky preserve - Wikipedia

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   A dark-sky preserve status enables high-quality astronomical observation in Paranal Observatory. [1] A dark-sky preserve (DSP) is an area, usually surrounding a park or observatory, that restricts or reduces light pollution or maintains and protects naturally dark night skies. Different terms have been used to describe these areas as national ...