Hi all,

I am curious to work out where the best place is for an astronomer
to live in the UK. In other words, what location in the UK has the
greatest number of clear nights per year?

Do databases exist (preferably online) that give the total number of
clear nights (or days, I guess it doesn't matter for collecting
statistics) per year for many locations across the UK, preferably for
the last 10 years+ (to get some decent statistics)?

cheers,

Das

Das wrote:
Hi all,

I am curious to work out where the best place is for an astronomer
to live in the UK. In other words, what location in the UK has the
greatest number of clear nights per year?

Not sure about uncloudiness data but I guess also important is light
pollution. You can find detailed light pollution maps for different
areas of the UK he
http://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/lan...-your-area.htm

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Das wrote:
Hi all,

I am curious to work out where the best place is for an astronomer
to live in the UK. In other words, what location in the UK has the
greatest number of clear nights per year?

Not sure about uncloudiness data but I guess also important is light
pollution. You can find detailed light pollution maps for different
areas of the UK he
http://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/lan...-your-area.htm

I'm sure that we've had this discussion before and the No. 1 spot was
the Isle of Tiree. Nice place to live.

Phil
From the Kyle of Sutherland - 175 feet AMSL [NH 616916]
(40 miles north of Inverness)