As a budding stargazer I hope this dark-nights idea spreads to other countries.
Light pollution has the potential to get even worse with LED lighting which is no longer filterable like sodium lighting was.
Light pollution has the potential to get even worse with LED lighting which is no longer filterable like sodium lighting was.
Death Valley in California has pristine night skies. I cannot even begin to describe how different it is. Think - fine diamond dust on black velvet. There are stars everywhere you look. Amazing.
The most preserved one is surely around the Pic du Midi in French pyrenees. It is actually an Dark Sky Reserve since 2013.
And according to this map¹, North of Scotland seems a good spot too, among others.
1 : https://avex-asso.org/dossiers/pl/europe-2016/ (in French, but the colors are pretty self-explanatory)