How To Find Nearby Dark Skies, No Matter Where You Are

StartsWithABang (3485481) writes "For those of us living in or around large cities — and that's most of us — we're completely divorced from dark, clear night skies as part of our routine experience. But even though our skies may typically rate a seven or higher on the Bortle Dark Sky Scale, that doesn't mean that significantly darker skies aren't accessible. Here's how to install an interactive light pollution map for yourself, and find the darkest skies near you no matter where you are! (North American-centric, but resources are provided for those elsewhere in the world.)"

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Fly past the modern-looking junky blog site

[ModernGeek]

Here is the real site with the actual map: http://www.jshine.net/astronom... I love how the most modern looking sites with all the share, like, and tracking code embedded into them have the least amount of information...

Re:Fly past the modern-looking junky blog site

[DerekLyons]

Here is the real site with the actual map: http://www.jshine.net/astronom...

No, that's a site with a map - had you actually read the article, you'd have found it included a way to incorporate the information in Google Earth (a map program, you may have heard of it) as well.
 

I love how the most modern looking sites with all the share, like, and tracking code embedded into them have the least amount of information...

The article referenced in the summary had plenty of information - including two different ways to get the dark sky maps.

Re:Fly past the modern-looking junky blog site

[houghi]

Or just go to the page with the Google Earth image overlays for artificial night sky brightness that you can import into Google Earth and has images for the rest of the world as well.