Stargazing

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high elevation desert far from a city-nm, ut, az, nv

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>>1032543
>https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=5&lat=4512246&lon=-11560357&layers=B0TFFFFFF

>>1032514

Southern Utah...Natural Bridges National Monument has been officially named an International Dark Sky Park (or something like that)

>>1032514
Look up "bortle scale map" and go from there. There's very few places wast of the Mississippi that are a 3 or 2 and there's absolutely nowhere that's a 1 unless you go up to northern Canada. Or 300 miles on the ocean.

>>1032514
Maryland

>>1032514
Big Bend National Park in Texas is (I think) technically the darkest place in the continental US. I went there last year and the stars were pretty amazing

Go to the dryest and the highest place you can go anon

>>1032514
Steel Creek Campground in Ozark National Forest, Arkansas. Wont be too bad of a drive for you and the stars were amazing when i was there in February.

>>1032514
Does anyone know if Norway (in summer) is good for stargazing?

>>1034749
Probably better in the winter. You know, when it actually gets dark.

>>1034763
I know but I'm going in the summer with some friends, not just going there to stargaze. Just wondering how good the conditions are.

>>1034769
pretty bright. might have a shot if you're in the southern parts. up north it doesn't even get dark

>>1032905
Texfag reporting and can confirm.

>>1032851
please tell me where because the only good spot i've been to is assateague

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Tennessee is going to be a great spot to see the Solar eclipse this summer on august 21st

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http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

lots of light pollution maps will go easy on the light pollution - or so to speak. They'll ease up the results and as a result, there will be a lot of areas where the map will say there's not a lot of light pollution but there really is. This one is the best i've found so far.

There are some spots around the western and southwestern regions of Illinois that I take pic related out to on some weekends.

>>1032514
I had a good time stargazing the last couple of nights in a place near a little town called rustic colorado in the poudre valley.

Big Bend, New Mexico has better spots because of the elevation but it's probably more than 20 hours

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I spent a couple days visiting a friend recently in some little fart of a ghost town in the high Mojave. I sat on the porch until the moon came up, and I got a little teary-eyed.
I don't know how good it technically is, but being from urban southwest Michigan, it was a sight to see. Here's a shitty photo I took from the side of the road.

>>1039159
Man I'd probably sudoku myself if I lived east of the Mississippi

>>1032514
Fuck that. Just find a good spot away from towns when there aint a moon