Prototype for Kerry County Council RFT · live demonstration data from real astronomy · built by ABL Media Group
Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve · Gold Tier
How dark is the sky tonight?
Live sky-quality monitoring across 11 stations in one of the darkest places on Earth. See where the stars are best right now, and when the sky will be at its darkest.
Best sky last night
21.41
mag / arcsec² · Bortle 3–4
Very good
Daytime — showing last night's reading
Sky-quality meters only read after dark. Astronomical darkness returns around 20:48 tonight, when live readings resume.
MoonWaxing crescent7% lit · up
Darkness window20:48 → 06:12astronomical night
Moonrise / set12:00 / 19:54darkest when the moon is down
The reserve, station by station
tap a station on the mapSky quality across the reserve
last 30 nights · darkest reading each nightBallinskelligs (core zone). The dotted line marks 21.5 mag/arcsec² — the threshold for a true dark sky.
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