Excellent light pollution map

[mert]

Thanks, very handy

[Nibor]

Many thanks for this excellent link - it will help me plan good caravan sites for observing holidays!!

[Scosmico]

If you want to know how to apply this layer to Google earth and others. See this old post of mine.

http://stargazerslounge.com/beginners-help-advice/146220-light-pollution-map.html

[coffee_prince]

the link to this map has been posted many times (seems many websites us the same picture), maybe it should be stickied?

I've been doing a lot of thinking, and I realise that living in really bad light polluted skies, there is nothing much I can do, especially if I don't drive. It severely limits my ability to enjoy this hobby. I don't know how to approach this situation.

[osbourne one-nil]

i think you need to check your colur vision ....

Well, the village itself is marked as cyan, but once outside the village, there appears to be no colour overlay so I assumed that to be the black category. Am I wrong? I don't live in Appleby, just in case that's confused things; I live about 6 miles away.

[laser_jock99]

I've been doing a lot of thinking, and I realise that living in really bad light polluted skies, there is nothing much I can do, especially if I don't drive. It severely limits my ability to enjoy this hobby. I don't know how to approach this situation.

In your position I'd be thinking about concentrating on lunar and planetary work or maybe looking at getting a solar telescope?

I lived in the suburbs for many years and more or less gave up astronomy at home (excepting holidays to the country side). Now I've moved back into the wilds I have taken it up again.

[Keiran]

Thanks for making me feel worse Im by the arrow.... somewhere between 80 and 250 stars

[scarecrow]

Links dead

[LukeSkywatcher]

I have so many sites within 20 mins drive of me that have zero light pollution that i never use because i simply do not fancy being being alone in the woods late at night.

[Daz Type-R]

Link has been like that for a couple of weeks now......

[DavidOfBanff]

I'd like to see this map. Anyone have an updated link?

[Carl M]

http://www.avex-asso.org/dossiers/pl/uk/index.html <- link for map

UK Light pollution Map <- scroll down the page for colour references

[DavidOfBanff]

Brilliant, thanks Carl M.

[cantab]

Light pink, practically nothing.

[jimmyjamjoejoe]

Blue crew checkin' in

[Nibor]

Thanks for the link - Orange for me!!

The following link goes to the colour legend.

UK Light pollution Map

A really good site and should help me pick some good areas for caravan trips!!

[Nova]

Just had a go at that. Works really well

[cantab]

This may be as good a location as any to mention the worst light pollution I suffered. It was on the student accommodation site I was in in my fourth year at University. Brand new build, and immediately by the buildings they opted for low sideways mounted white fluorescents, something like this: New Indoor and Outdoor Bulkhead: High Frequency Round Luminaire | New Light Fittings from Sparks & Lights but with the disk up on end. These were used in excess numbers and left on all night.

I wasn't especially interested in observational astronomy at that point. My room was on the second (and highest) floor, and these lights shining in disturbed my sleep

Meanwhile, the "garden" areas on the same site, which one has to walk through to get between the various buildings and entrances, were underlit.

Oh, and we were less than half a mile from the University's telescopes.

(The general sky darkness is probably worse where I am in Birmingham, but there isn't the same degree of specific awful lighting right where I live.)

[parkway]

Thanks for posting the updated link. Purple for me.. but I expected that being near 2 cities. Nice to see where all the dark spots are though. Good for planning holidays away. :-)

[rfdesigner]

Not totally convinced by the map. Various of the villages near to me are painted yellow.. yet have little or no lighting.

I assume it's just based on housing densities... rather than where the street lights are?

[duncan.p]

Thanks for the links.................

[laser_jock99]

Not totally convinced by the map. Various of the villages near to me are painted yellow.. yet have little or no lighting.

I assume it's just based on housing densities... rather than where the street lights are?

I've noticed that- we're in a scattered hamlet of a dozen houses spread over a large area with no lights for miles yet still shown as a blue dot on the map. If it was 'real' light pollution then you wouldn't see any colour on the map?

[hemihaggis]

yeah im afraid i dont think much of the above light pollution map , it states naked eye and it is a composite ,

try this map for a more realistic view of LP in modern uk Light Pollution Overview - Map Only

as you can see the only true dark skies are in the north west highlands and islands . sorry .

[Gonzo]

I'm in the white zone.... I guess I'm out of luck.