NamibRand: what the sky looks like from a Bortle 1 desert at 25° south
NamibRand Nature Reserve covers 2,150 km² of Namib Desert roughly 400 km southwest of Windhoek. In 2012, the International Dark-Sky Association gave it Gold Tier International Dark Sky Reserve status — the second site in the world to receive the designation, and the first in Africa. The reserve records Bortle 1 sky conditions on a continuously logging Unihedron SQM-LE, with the nearest meaningful light dome more than 70 km away. If you’ve only ever observed from mid-northern latitudes and wonder what the Milky Way looks like when its core passes through your zenith, this is the place to find out. ...