| Joined: | Mon Apr 2nd, 2012 |
| Location: | South Lakeland, UK |
| Posts: | 4066 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
It confirms my expectation that North West Scotland is the closest I am likely to get to a dark sky. It's just getting there when there are clear skies.
Kielder is affected by Glasgow and Newcastle, quite noticeable on a dark clear night It's my understanding that major cities like Glasgow can pollute the darkness for more than two hundred miles around. In the South West Lake District National Park where I am lucky enough to live, just North of Barrow, we have green to grey rating.
As you can see from the first image in my last set, the Sellafield nuclear plant (Seascale, or Calder Hall), the whiter patch to the left, is a powerful source of light pollution, from just one plant, albeit a very large one. The more orange patch to the right is Whitehaven and Workington.
It's interesting to see that the West coast of the Isle of Mull seems to have a good rating... That's 'only' 320 miles from here. Mmmm.
____________________
Robert.