r/darksky

Hi, Seeing the Milky Way has been on my bucket list for the longest time. I will be in Ireland in early July and I would like to visit the Kerry dark sky reserve. Is there any website where I can book or get a guide? Will I need an accommodation nearby and where? What will be the right time to visit? I know I have to consider the weather but do I also need to look at the mooncycle?
Hope someone can help this amateur completely new to the town and stargazing

We are hoping to camp in Southwest Colorado this July, but don’t know where the best Dark Sky Park is. I would love to camp at Mesa Verde, but the closest campsite doesn’t say anything about keeping lights off at night, so we don’t want to reserve anything until we are sure. Any suggestions?

I’ve spent the last few days digging through 282 pages of official reports and technical handbooks published by the Danish Road Directorate (2024). For anyone in this sub fighting light pollution, this is a goldmine of institutional cognitive dissonance.

Their own technical handbook explicitly admits that the standard metrics used for road lighting—lux and Kelvin—are "scientifically insufficient" because they ignore the biological impact of the blue spectrum. They actually cite the need for CIE S 026:2018 and acknowledge that the 100-year-old V(lambda) model is biologically obsolete.

Despite this "epiphany" in their own manuals, they are doubling down on high-intensity white LED rollouts. Their research documents a 17% spike in asthma-related hospitalizations linked to disrupted tree phenology (9-day earlier budburst caused by blue-rich ALAN) and a 47% crash in local insect populations. They even admit that a Melanopic EDI (mEDI) above 0.35 is harmful for human recovery at night, yet their current installations exceed this by a mile.

The most frustrating find: Page 116 of their report confirms that simple amber filters can be retrofitted to existing white LEDs to remove 76% of the harmful blue peak. I confronted them with this, and the official stance is basically: "We have 1 million lamps with a 20-year lifespan, and we aren't changing anything until the accounting cycle ends."

I will be sharing my findings with the danish media, since the reports are in danish.

I`ve seen so many lately but still can`t choose one accurate with accurate indexes and magnitudes.