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Mayo Dark Skies

@mayodarkskies.bsky.social

Community group established to support Mayo Dark Sky Park at Wild Nephin National Park. International Dark Sky Place of the Year!

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🚨 Oh wow. Calling the side of the world where it's still dark. Look up!! Look up!! The mega sun burp has arrived 😮 #AuroraAlert Notes: Get far away from streetlights & look for a silvery shimmer in the sky. Prop your smartphone up on a wall to take a long exposure & reveal the colours. 🤩 🔭🧪

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Mayo Dark Skies @mayodarkskies.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

🌌✨ Happy Biodiversity Week 2025 🦇🌿🌟 We’re starting tonight with: 🦇DARK SKIES, BATS & BIODIVERSITY - Co. MAYO www.darksky.ie/event/dark-skies-bat… #mayodarkskies #protectnature #mayodarkskypark #darkskyireland #BiodiversityWeek #endlightpollution

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Amazing news! First certified dark sky airport in Jackson Hole. Now if one airport can do it, surely they all can? Let’s turn those lights down and our eyes to the skies 🌌

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Aoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thanks to ATU Mayo Outdoor Education graduate Georgia Macmillan for an excellent and thought provoking talk on dark skies as part of Green Week. @atumayo.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @mayodarkskies.bsky.social @georgiamacmillan.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social

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ATU Mayo @atumayo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

ATU Mayo Outdoor Education graduate Georgia Macmillian will speak on campus next Friday about Mayo Dark Skies as part of Green Week. All welcome @mayodarkskies.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social

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Mayo Dark Skies @mayodarkskies.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Looking forward to @daraobriain.bsky.social tonight in TF Castlebar. Welcome to Mayo! Hope ya get a chance to enjoy some of our Dark Skies! ✨🔭😊

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Aoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A pair of dark skies themed bookmarks. #speirgorm #painting #acrylics

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Mayo Dark Skies @mayodarkskies.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Busy week in Mayo Dark Sky Park! Thanks @roknezic.bsky.social of Armagh Observatory & Planetarium 🪐 for a great few days of learning in our Pale Blue Dot Planetarium.

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Georgia at Mayo Dark Skies @georgiamacmillan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Thrilled to officially share the news that Mayo Dark Sky Park at Wild Nephin National Park is the proud recipient of International Dark Sky Place of the Year award. It means a great deal considering there are now over 200 dark sky places around the world! We wish everyone a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

https://www.npws.ie/news/mayo-international-dark-sky-park-wins-international-award

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Georgia at Mayo Dark Skies @georgiamacmillan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Wouldn’t it be nice if this major supplier had just one dark sky friendly porch light in stock, considering its proximity to a dark sky park. Just one ☝️ #missingatrick @darkskyireland.bsky.social @mayodarkskies.bsky.social

Display of outdoor lighting in major DIY shop. Most of which cause unnecessary light pollution. No sign of dark sky friendly lighting.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🔊 Exciting news! The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish #DarkSky Observatory will live again! We were all so upset when it burnt to a cinder back in 2021, but yesterday we bought the land for its new home, deep within the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park! 🧵1/3 🧪🔭 #astrophotography

In the forest: the smouldering wreckage of a completely gutted building with a red fire truck parked nearby.
Credit: Ayrshire Post

A wooden building with a telescope dome in the snowy hills at night. Up above the sky is full of stars including the famous constellation of Orion.
Credit: Dave Dubya, Scottish Dark Skies Observatory

A building on fire at night with smoke billowing out and hot flames.
Credit: Danny Cameron

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