Light Pollution - Stargazing

FullOf..IT

Hi,

Looking to do some stargazing during the summer months.

Where would be a good place to do this, somewhere with limited light pollution.

Im currently living in Lucan, Dublin

MeteoritesEire

I daresay there are lots of good dark sky areas in Ireland but I haven't seen any better than Donegal.I moved out here from Belfast mostly for the dark skies

ZeRoY

FullOf..IT wrote: »

Hi,

Looking to do some stargazing during the summer months.

Where would be a good place to do this, somewhere with limited light pollution.

Im currently living in Lucan, Dublin

Check some older thread, I think the Dublin astronomers regularly visit Sugarloaf in Dublin?

murphyme2010

The Dublin Stargazers meet at the Sugarloaf, Portmarnock and in Trooperstown.

The next meetup is on the 27th April in Portmarnock.

Trooperstown is quite good for somewhere closeish to Dublin.

Stargazing sessions are sometimes organised on www.irishastronomy.org.

Michael.

muckish

I suppose it also depends on where/what in the sky you want to observe. Better to have the light pollution behind you when you're observing. SO if you were observing something in the southern sky then you wouldn't observe across the city lights of Dublin for example. It's surprising what you can see in the sky even in a city. Get into the shadow of a building and look up. And give you're eyes time to adjust to the relative darkness.

FullOf..IT

thanks for the replies all