Warrumbungle National Park Named Australia's First Dark Sky Park

[pfitzgerald (Paul)]

Hi Folks

Just came across this nice little piece in the news.

http://www.escape.com.au/news/warrum...a35816762c9299

I can also thoroughly recommend going to Starfest if you get the chance,

At last - now if we can just work on the LP in our cities.

Paul

[gary]

Hi Paul,

Already posted here a few days ago -
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...=Warrumbungles

[pfitzgerald (Paul)]

Ooops. My bad - thanks for letting me know Gary.

Paul

[skysurfer]

Indeed, nice !

But I saw the list of all parks and was really disappointed.
By far the most in the US, and a few others in the EU and only three in other countries: Australia, South Korea and the UK.

The German Eifel NP is close to light polluted urban areas in the Netherlands and Belgium.

I would assume that Australia should have 36 parks, to begin with Uluru. The same for South Africa of which the largest part has Bortle 3 or darker skies (gray or black zone), like Australia.