Mayo Dark Skies

🚨 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. 🤩 🔭🧪

01.06.2025 07:15 — 👍 89    🔁 31    💬 8    📌 3

🌌✨ Happy Biodiversity Week 2025 🦇🌿🌟

We’re starting tonight with:

🦇DARK SKIES, BATS & BIODIVERSITY - Co. MAYO
https://www.darksky.ie/event/dark-skies-bats-biodiversity-2/

#mayodarkskies #protectnature #mayodarkskypark
#darkskyireland #BiodiversityWeek #endlightpollution

18.05.2025 17:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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 🌌

05.05.2025 19:40 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0

Exactly!

06.05.2025 07:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

08.03.2025 12:01 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Always a pleasure to be back on campus. Thanks for the invite!

19.03.2025 23:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

28.02.2025 12:19 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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! ✨🔭😊

08.02.2025 18:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

19.01.2025 18:37 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Very nice indeed!

19.01.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mobile Planetarium at Ballycroy

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.

19.01.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

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!

30.12.2024 21:24 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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

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

22.12.2024 12:27 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

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

🔊 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

30.11.2024 07:46 — 👍 605    🔁 95    💬 16    📌 9