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- Best use
- Moonset windows, route checks, and local light conditions
- Planning signal
- Worth timing around moonset
- Route context
- 4 Stella stays within 350 km
Certified dark-sky park
Brecon Beacons Dark Sky Reserve
United Kingdom · Rural / suburban transition skies
About this place
- Overview
- Welsh national park; first IDA Dark Sky Reserve in Wales
- Horizon
- Rolling moorland hills; open views from summit areas
- Region
- United Kingdom
- Nearest city
- ~40 km of light pollution
Designation & sky
- Type
- Dark-Sky Park
- Designation
- IDA Dark Sky Reserve
- Sky quality
- Bortle 4.1 (measured) · Rural / suburban transition
- Measured brightness
- 21.2 mag/arcsec² · Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) IDSR application: core-zone average 21.22 mag/arcsec^2, rounded to 0.1
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