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The Kawarau Gibbston Dark Sky Park was accredited as an International Dark Sky Park by DarkSky International in May 2024. [1] [2] It is the first dark sky preserve to be accredited in the Otago Region, [3] the seventh dark sky preserve in New Zealand, [2] and the third International Dark Sky Park in the country (after Wai-iti Dark Sky Park and ...
The Kaikōura Dark Sky Sanctuary was accredited as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary by DarkSky International in September 2024. [3] Kaikōura is the third dark sky sanctuary to be accredited in New Zealand. The Kaikōura Dark Sky Sanctuary has a pristine night sky, providing particularly clear viewing of the Milky Way galaxy.
For the Wairarapa reserve, the dark core is the entire area of the Aorangi Forest Park in the south of the reserve. [2] All measurements of night sky luminance in the core area are darker than 21.3 mag/arcsec 2 (corresponding to Bortle scale 3), and in places are as dark as 21.8 mag/arcsec 2 (Bortle scale 1).
Anderson Mesa Station is an astronomical observatory established in 1959 as a dark-sky observing site for Lowell Observatory. It is located at Anderson Mesa in Coconino County , Arizona , about 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Lowell's main campus on Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona .
International Dark Sky Week (formerly the National Dark Sky Week) is held during the week of the new moon in April, [1] [2] when people worldwide may turn off their lights to observe the beauty of the night sky without light pollution. This event was founded in 2003 by high school student Jennifer Barlow of Midlothian, Virginia. [3]
The Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve is a 1,416-square-mile (3,670 km 2) dark-sky preserve near the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, in the U.S. state of Idaho. It was designated on December 18, 2017, and is the first gold-tier dark sky preserve in the United States. [2] [3] [4] The area was designated by International Dark-Sky Association.
The ten photos below are the result of many conversations in which we weighed the images from this year that made us feel the most—and question the most. These are the images we always came back to.
The Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve is an area of 4,367 km 2 (1,686 sq mi) that was designated as an International Dark Sky Reserve by the International Dark-Sky Association in June 2012. The reserve is located in the Mackenzie District in the South Island of New Zealand. At the time of the designation in 2012, the reserve was ...