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Tourist park hopes to be named one of planet's true black spots A Scottish forest is one of two national parks competing to be named Officials from the Forestry Commission Scotland are hoping Galloway Forest Park will beat Hortobágy National Park in Hungary to be crowned Europe's first official &qu...

New Astronomy Park of Montsec Click to Play | View Details This area is specifically for observing the sky, both at night and during the day. The Park comprises two buildings with observation domes containing two automated telescopes, a coelostat for solar observation and a set of portable telesco...

Several organisations, including the Forestry Commission and the John Muir Trust, are collaborating to establish inner-city dark sky discovery sites in "small oases of unlit land". Dan Hillier, manager of the visitors' centre at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory, is leading the proje...

Environment Minister Peter Kent formally named Jasper National Park the world's largest dark sky preserve on Friday. The 11,228 square-kilometre refuge, four hours west of Edmonton, in the Canadian Rockies, is 10 times the size of the next-largest designated area Grasslands National Park in Sa...

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Reserve Dark sky zone (Preview)	General news	8	4544	May 29 10:08 2017 by Blobrana
Tourist park hopes to be named one of planet's true black spots A Scottish forest is one of two national parks competing to be named Officials from the Forestry Commission Scotland are hoping Galloway Forest Park will beat Hortobágy National Park in Hungary to be crowned Europe's first official &qu...
Reserve Montsec Astronomy Park (Preview)	General news	1	941	May 19 17:14 2009 by Blobrana
New Astronomy Park of Montsec Click to Play \| View Details This area is specifically for observing the sky, both at night and during the day. The Park comprises two buildings with observation domes containing two automated telescopes, a coelostat for solar observation and a set of portable telesco...
Reserve Dark-sky discovery sites (Preview)	General news	4	2518	Oct 21 07:40 2012 by Blobrana
Several organisations, including the Forestry Commission and the John Muir Trust, are collaborating to establish inner-city dark sky discovery sites in "small oases of unlit land". Dan Hillier, manager of the visitors' centre at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory, is leading the proje...
Reserve Jasper National Park (Preview)	General news	0	772	Mar 14 10:44 2011 by Blobrana
Environment Minister Peter Kent formally named Jasper National Park the world's largest dark sky preserve on Friday. The 11,228 square-kilometre refuge, four hours west of Edmonton, in the Canadian Rockies, is 10 times the size of the next-largest designated area Grasslands National Park in Sa...