Cloud 3: Rural sky: Some indication of light pollution is evident along the horizon. ... Any clouds in the sky are visible only as dark holes or voids in the starry background.

A decently dark site in a rural area has a sky background of about 21 mag/arcsec 2. In the Rocky Mountains in Colorado I’ve been to sites a bit darker than this, and it’s truly spectacular.

An area that’s nearly half the size of New Jersey in southern Oregon was recently named the world’s largest dark sky sanctuary by DarkSky International.The nonprofit works to combat light ...

Nicknamed the "Giant Dark Cloud," scientists first noticed that feature in data gathered by an infrared camera aboard the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki, which has been orbiting Venus since 2015.The ...

The dark sky designation keeps the stars bright with the goal of attracting visitors. Binder's Camp V used to house engineers from the old uranium mine in the 1940s.

For background, here's Liz Jamison's ... Dark Sky representative Michael McKeag who leads the Oregon chapter conducted a site analysis of Antelope and presented to City Council the following month.

Tourism chiefs on the dark sky island of Sark are hoping to attract more stargazing tourists by establishing a planetarium. Sark Astronomy Society (SAstroS) said there were more than 1,000 ...