The Bortle Dark Sky Scale measures the brightness of the night sky, ranging from class 1 (the darkest skies) to class 9 (the brightest urban skies). While Bortle class 5 areas might still offer ...

The darker the spot, the better viewing experience you'll have. The Bortle Dark Sky Scale is a classification system that ...

RELATED: PHOTOS: Northwest Ohio experiences dazzling display of Northern Lights Light pollution is measured on something called the Bortle Scale. A ranking of 1 is true darkness, while 9 is the ...

Ideally, you'll need to be in a dark sky area — there are 21 amazing dark sky reserves around the world — and this will help with capturing really detailed images of the night sky. After ...

ranking at a level 2 on the nine-level Bortle Dark-Sky Scale for light pollution. For comparison, big cities like Los Angeles are a level 8 or 9, and even remote places in the US like Yosemite ...

Johannes has a MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London and serves as the Managing Director at IFLScience.

Thanks to the efforts of National Parks and other authorities and organisations in tackling light pollution, the UK now has 19 accredited Dark Sky places.

The island of Rum, south of Skye and home to 40 people, has been named Scotland's first International Dark Sky Sanctuary by the organisation DarkSky International. Scotland has five International ...

Glamping resort Under Canvas has revealed that five of its camps across Urah and Arizona have been awarded the new “Dark Sky Resort” status by the non-profit DarkSky International. The ...

Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, a Dark Sky Preserve. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Step outside on a clear, moonless night, and you may catch a hazy ...