Anyone heading for a dark sky site tonight?

[Stub Mandrel]

I want to go further afield and the forecast for tonight looks promising enough to be worth driving 30 or 40 miles.

If anyone else is planning to go to a dark site in the Peak District and would consider meeting up, please send me a message - I don't want to post details in an open forum in case there are bad lads about.

[Sirius Starwatcher]

Best of luck  Neil, I'm just too far North to get to the Peaks tonight.

[xtreemchaos]

same here, if i take morethan 30 steps im lost , going to be looking out the obsy room window tonight, its 90% clear at the moment. goodluck.  charl.

[Beulah]

Up at 5 tomorrow for the long commute and slog at t'up mill, so no observing here, tonight.

[Scott]

early start for me too but have you thought of the area around the roaches/winking man? get down some of those narrow side streetsand it canget pretty dark

 

[ChrisLX200]

Yes, we used to go to a place behind the Roaches called Gradbach, very dark on a good night but Manchester and Stoke throw their light pollution a heck of a long way so it's difficult to avoid completely anywhere within the Peak District. However, when the transparency is good that light doesn't get reflected back from the sky at you so it really depends on atmospherics.

ChrisH

[estwing]

me, Moonshane and bomberbaz went here one night...pretty good.https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.171831,-1.8457943,3a,75y,4.35h,75.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sE8VMLkkDtPOa2gyWhw8biw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

you can pull in the lay-by where the stone has been tipped...

[KyleStoke]

I went through Longnor at the weekend and thought it would be good up there. should be clear now but stepped outside and its raining

[Stub Mandrel]

I went to Parlsey Hay, very clear over the top but a ring of light pollution around the horizon. Recognised more than I've seen before, but far from as dark as Exmoor.

Although I was imaging I had a great naked eye/small binos night so I'll do a visual report.

In the doghouse as although i thought i was creeping in at 4:30 apparently I woke everyone up