Stargazing from Troodos: a practical guide to Cyprus's mountain dark sky
If you live anywhere on Cyprus, you can be under SQM 21.3 skies in 90 minutes. The Troodos massif covers the central third of the island, peaks at 1,952 m on Mount Olympus, and is the only place on Cyprus with both real darkness and paved roads to it. From my balcony in Nicosia (Bortle 7, SQM around 19.0 on a good night), the difference is roughly two visual magnitudes. The Milky Way goes from “you can almost see it” to “you can read your watch by it.” ...