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- Milky Way, meteor showers, and deep-sky viewing
- Planning signal
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- Route context
- 2 Stella stays within 350 km
Certified dark-sky park
Kerry Dark Sky Reserve
Ireland · Truly dark skies
About this place
- Overview
- Southwest Ireland; gold-tier IDA reserve on the Wild Atlantic Way
- Horizon
- Atlantic Ocean horizon to the west and south; mountains inland
- Region
- Ireland
- Nearest city
- ~80 km of light pollution
Designation & sky
- Type
- Dark-Sky Park
- Designation
- IDA Dark Sky Reserve
- Sky quality
- Bortle 2.0 (measured) · Truly dark
- Measured brightness
- 21.7 mag/arcsec² · Kerry IDSR (reserve site via Internet Archive, corroborated): representative darkest-zone zenith 21.7 mag/arcsec^2
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