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Does anyone know of a site that lists good stargazing spots? Whenever I try to look I get some "top 10 places in the world." Well, that doesn't help me since I

• snogglethorpe 12y ago
  I'd think the backcountry in any wilderness area not near a large city would be pretty good. As a kid, I loved backpacking in the Olympic National Forest (Washington state) for this reason... This is "Seven Lakes Basin", which I personally guarantee to be completely awesome: https://goo.gl/maps/pQKs5 https://goo.gl/maps/pQKs5
  • UrMomReadsHN 12y ago
    I've been out backpacking in the wilderness plenty before. I was/am looking for something that is the least amount of light pollution I can find in a reasonable distance. There seems to be good resources out there for other attributes of an area so I thought someone might have gathered data on light pollution.
    • snogglethorpe 12y ago
      Hmm, you'd think it would make a good Google-maps overlay. [It occurs to me that light-pollution is 5D data—geographic coordinates + incident angle/direction + intensity—so I guess they'd have to take an average intensity over the sphere or something...]
• MiguelVieira 12y ago
  http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/ http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/
  • UrMomReadsHN 12y ago
    Great! Thanks!