Super sky to rubbish, which have you got ?

[D4N]

In winter I'd say 3 dropping to 2 after 2300 when the streetlights go out.

In summer 9 as it doesn't get dark.

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[Piero]

Something around 4

[niallk]

4ish, 3 or so 10 min drive

[LukeSkywatcher]

1-4 for me depending how far away or close to town i go. From my back garden its probably 2.

[Kishen20]

In winter I'd say 3 dropping to 2 after 2300 when the streetlights go out.

Street lights go out at your place after a certain time???

Very safe area huh? 

[D4N]

Yep not much crime here, not that street lights really stop crime, they just make it easier for crooks to spot targets.

My nearest streetlight is about 100m away and not in line of sight but it's still obvious looking at the sky when they suddenly all turn off.

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[Dave_D]

thanks to the 4 streetlights shining into the back garden of my flat and the 25 within eyeshot, mine is about 15-16

my poor scope has been sat forlornly in my room since october

still, now have wheels of my own and just need to save for a big leisure battery

[bejay1957]

Despite the efforts of householders to make up for the lack of streetlights in the village, I reckon I'm a 3 from the garden.

[laser_jock99]

Street lights go out at your place after a certain time???

Very safe area huh? 

Crime levels usually goes down after 'part night lighting' schemes are introduced. The bulk of reported night time crime is either alcohol related, petty theft, vandalism/property damage or other antisocial behavoir. These type of people just move on to a well lit area when the lights go out. The career criminals operate in daylight a lot of the time anyway.

[Uranium235]

Somewhere between 5 and 4 here (on a good night).

Last night was more like a 6, quite soupy up there.

[glowjet]

About 5 on average Nick, but 35mins drive North to a very quite off road rural site gives me 4/3

[LukeSkywatcher]

There's only been 1 burglary on my street since ive lived here. It happened on the same night that a family across the street returned from a three week stay in Canada over Christmas. The fog that night was the worst id ever seen. The burglar(s) were well hidden in the fog and simply broke a glass pane on the front door and went in and cleared out much of the electronics in the house. You honestly couldnt see more than 2-3 ft in front of yourself that night.

[Matt Scunthorpe]

5 here, maybe 4 every now and then.

Matt.

[happy-kat]

Sark by all accounts a great night sky

I'm between 5-6

[DRT]

My score is about 4 to 5 - I have no direct light into my normal viewing area but I do have Sheffield six miles away turning the sky a washed out orange.

[Ags]

5 to 7 for me.

[Kishen20]

Crime levels usually goes down after 'part night lighting' schemes are introduced. The bulk of reported night time crime is either alcohol related, petty theft, vandalism/property damage or other antisocial behavoir. These type of people just move on to a well lit area when the lights go out. The career criminals operate in daylight a lot of the time anyway.

Oh, I see, there is a logic to it after all.

[laser_jock99]

Oh, I see, there is a logic to it after all.

Figures released by Warwickshire Police last year showed reported night time crimes going down by up to 60% in some Part Night Lighting areas, while adjacent streets with lights remaining on all night, crime levels remained the same. Thus proving the people saying we'd all be 'murdered in our beds' totally wrong!

[Cath]

3 is normally the best we get (living on the very edge of a rather large town)

[DaveS]

You know what? I'd be really happy with Bortle 3 or 4. Using the now-defuct Need-Less site it was really hard to find anything that low without going into the back-end of beyond. For example, looking at Dorset, the darkest it reported was NELM 5.7 and Bortle 5, that was on the coast near West Bexington.

[Cath]

Figures released by Warwickshire Police last year showed reported night time crimes going down by up to 60% in some Part Night Lighting areas, while adjacent streets with lights remaining on all night, crime levels remained the same. Thus proving the people saying we'd all be 'murdered in our beds' totally wrong!

Careful Jock, logic like that will get you exiled !

[JamesF]

I'd estimate that here we're three or better most of the time.

James

[BobSki]

I'd say between 3 and 5 for my back yard but if I drive a few minutes into the country side, I can get a 1.

[Paz]

Where I live, near a town and some big roads, it is about 7 on average, and I've not seen it any better than 5.

I stopped in a layby on a dark country lane on the way home late one night recently to have a look and could see a huge number of stars compared to what can be seen from my garden.

[Demonperformer]

Definitely "rubbish" for me.  Using the table here: https://darkskydiary.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/naked-eye-limiting-magnitude-assessing-sky-brightness/ , my front garden (with its overabundance of streetlights) gets a 9, from the back I can get down to an 8.

Heigh-ho.