Dark skies in the Spanish Pyrenees

[MN66User]

Hi all,

just returned from a holiday in Berdun, northern Spain.

All I can say is that the night skies were superb - saw the Milky Way on 10 of the 14 nights I was there.

Sadly I only had a short time each night to do some imaging - with an AstroTrak - but I can definitely recommend this place for Astronomy = shame that its a ~150Km drive from the nearest Airport [Zarragoza or Biaritz].

The Milky Way was visible from 30 minutes after sunset and I found a place only 0.5Km walk from the town centre that was dark enough to observe or take images.

hope you can get there sometime soon.

regards

Rob

[QldLiz]

Ooh, sounds nice Rob!!

Head to Spain and Portugal next month for 5 weeks, and have 3 nights at Zaragoza. Alas, not driving, but hopeing for some dark skies to peer at those confusing Northern Hem constellations.