RE: Headlands International Dark Sky Park

I expect the US has more places than the UK where you can get away from artificial light. I did have a telescope, but we have streetlights around us and a lot of people have lights on their houses. I managed to see Jupiter and some of its moons anyway. Setting it up is fiddly. You need a proper rig if you want to take good photos that may need a long exposure.

I would be wary of walking around that place in the dark if there are a lot of snakes.

I heard about some place in the US where they have some sensitive radio telescopes. There are lots of restrictions like only allowing diesel vehicles as they give off less electrical noise. We humans spew out so much interference in radio and light wavelengths. All the new micro-satellites cause problems for astronomers too.

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bozz 5 months ago

Yes, as I said just in our state alone we have a couple of dark sky designated areas. It helps that we have the great lakes around us. That gives you a wide open shoreline to just look north from. There is at least one dark sky area down in the Middle of Ohio that I have visited in the past as well. I had the special stand for my telescope, but learning all the numbers and angles was a bear! I haven't heard that about the radio telescopes, but I wouldn't doubt it. We likely have lots of private installations all over the place. I heard a long time ago there was a military radio relay down at the bottom of Lake Superior, but who really knows if that is true.

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