Finding a Million-Star Hotel An Astro-Tourist’s Guide to Dark Sky Places /

• Main Author: Mizon, Bob (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Air pollution.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.

Finding a Million-Star Hotel explores the modern phenomenon of astro-tourism, the efforts by increasing numbers of people to find nearby and distant locations where they can see the real night sky so often hidden by light pollution. Astronomer Bob Mizon directs readers to dark sky sites in the Unite...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Dark-Sky Places
• Chapter 2: Invasion of the townies
• Chapter 3: Night-sky-friendly centres, hotels and campsites in the UK and the USA
• Chapter 4: What’s in the sky?
• Chapter 5: The star-hunter’s kit
• Chapter 6: Stargazing etiquette
• Chapter 7: Hosting astro-tourism
• Chapter 8: Light pollution
• Appendix 1: List (at July 2015) of International Dark Sky Places and when established
• Appendix 2: Extracts from the conclusions and recommendations of the UK’s Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Artificial Light in the Environment, 2009
• Appendix 3: Night Sky Guides
• Glossary of terms
• Bibliography
• Index.