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- Milky Way, meteor showers, and deep-sky viewing
- Planning signal
- Dark-window target
- Route context
- 4 Stella stays within 350 km
Certified dark-sky park
Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park
United Kingdom · Truly dark skies
About this place
- Overview
- Scotland's first Dark Sky Park; forestry and wildlife under dark skies
- Horizon
- Surrounded by forest, some tree-line obstruction below 15°
- Region
- United Kingdom
- Nearest city
- ~60 km of light pollution
Designation & sky
- Type
- Dark-Sky Park
- Designation
- IDA Dark Sky Park
- Sky quality
- Bortle 2 · Truly dark
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Dark-sky stays near here
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