"I certainly enjoy going to the desert and just seeing the sky from a dark location, " he said.
The criteria for a dark sky site includes that the Milky Way is visible to the naked eye.
At its peak intensity this weekend, the shower is expected to generate about 16 meteors per hour in a dark sky, Cooke said.
So as a consequence you only have to drive a little way to find a dark sky site and enjoy the splendour of the night sky.
If approved by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDSA), the skies above the 400 sq mile (1, 050 sq km) of the Northumberland National Park could become a Dark Sky Reserve.
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Recently designated a Dark Sky Reserve for its lack of light pollution and the exceptional quality of its night sky, Iveragh is one of only seven such reserves in the world and the first in the northern hemisphere to get gold-tier status, the highest possible grading issued by the International Dark-Sky Association.
"You can no longer just take a short drive from the city and look at the Milky Way or the northern lights, " says Chad Moore, a board director for the International Dark-Sky Association, a Tucson-based nonprofit organization.
This is particularly true in the U.S. and Europe, where light researchers estimate that a child born today in either region has a one in 10 chance of witnessing a truly dark sky.
"Dark Sky Reserves are a big deal for stargazing, " explained Chris Bramley, editor of Sky at Night magazine.
Snow had started falling again, in tiny flakes at first and then in thicker chunks slanting down from a dark, milky sky.
Most wore black or other dark colors under a sky of cloudy gray.
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In the dark, under a starry sky and a waning moon, Todd and I drove up the side of Kimball Mountain, one of the last large peaks on the westernmost slope of the Rockies.
In Jacob van Ruisdael's captivating "View of Haarlem" (c. 1670-75), a totally flat, almost totally dark landscape lies under a canvas that is two-thirds billowing, sky-broken clouds.
The national park applied to the International Dark Sky Association to earn the status, a process that involved having its light pollution levels strictly monitored, and shielding outdoor lighting to make it more dark-sky friendly.
The sky was dark, and he had parked the car on a quiet street.
Onjefu said that when he headed outside, he immediately noticed a large, dark plume of smoke rising in the sky on the north side of town.
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"The trees were bending sideways, (and) the sky just went really dark and green, " Mark Ventrini, a photographer, reported seeing as he headed toward Belmar, New Jersey.
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The sky was gray near the tops of the mountains, as gray as a dark day in winter.
For the first time in a long time, they could see the stars shining brightly in the dark sky.
In scenes where we stare out at what I presume to be the back side of Anor Londo (a portion of the city we see but never visit in Dark Souls) the sky is the same color as the perpetual sunset over Anor Londo in the first game.
But Whistler makes for a long, expensive and potentially stressful daytrip, especially on dark winter evenings when the winding Sea-to-Sky Highway can be tricky to negotiate in a car.
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