Sark named first 'dark sky island'

[Nick R]

Starry nights are especially glorious on the tiny self-governing island, where there is no public street lighting, no paved roads, and cars are banned.

Sark named first 'dark sky island' - Yahoo! News UK

sounds like the perfect place

[mikeknowle]

Yes, I just saw the news item also. Fantastic! Good for them and good job by them.

Maybe after guidence from Sark Privy Council and some effort, Solihull can be designated as the World's first 'Dark Sky Metropolitan Borough'......closely followed by 'Birmingham, the World's first Dark Sky City'.

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Sorry, that was me... I just fell off my chair laughing .

Mike

[brianb]

Birmingham, the World's first Dark Sky City

Well, they'd have to dig it up & move it a bit further from London.

[mikeknowle]

If the National Grid reversed the polarity for Birmingham, would the phase shift cancel out the light from London?

Haha

Mike

[whooshbang]

think they need to add "Astronomy" to their list of activities.....

Simply Sark - Sark Activites

[brianb]

Hmmmm ... ghost walks ... sounds like a lot of people charging around with torches, not fun.

[brianb]

If the National Grid reversed the polarity for Birmingham, would the phase shift cancel out the light from London?

They could try supplying 275,000V direct to the street lighting circuits.

Phase shifts wouldn't work because the grid is 3 phase anyway (120 degrees out of step with each other).

[Demonperformer]

think they need to add "Astronomy" to their list of activities.....

Well, it's a start: http://www.simplysark.info/forum/cmps_index.php?page=astronomy

[mikeknowle]

Phase shifts wouldn't work because the grid is 3 phase anyway (120 degrees out of step with each other).

Could get Greater Manchester to join in then....

[perrin6]

I believe salty sea air is a bit corrosive on yer mirrors though. Still I think I could tolerate that if I had dark skies.

[perrin6]

They could try supplying 275,000V direct to the street lighting circuits.

Phase shifts wouldn't work because the grid is 3 phase anyway (120 degrees out of step with each other).

I thought phase-shifting only happened on Star trek What the heck is a 'phase' ? - no don't tell me, I never did physics at school, I only understand biology & chemistry.