Prosiect Nos has had a challenging year, however this hasn’t put a stop to several events and our work to reduce light pollution in our most sensitive areas. 

During lockdown the project ran a jam-packed programme of online events ranging from archaeology and stars to how light pollution impacts our wildlife. Hundreds of people attended, with many from across the globe! Audience members joined from as far away as Canada, Tasmania and New Zealand confirming that our reputation as one of the world’s best Dark Sky locations is truly global! A big part of keeping our skies dark and retaining our status as an ‘International Dark Sky Reserve’ is monitoring the darkness. We need to keep track of how dark we are to ensure light pollution isn’t growing but is in fact reducing. This year we put a call out for volunteers to help with this important work and we were overwhelmed with the response! Thank you to all who attended the training and became our first ever Dark Sky monitoring volunteers. These volunteers are now a crucial part of the National Park’s work to reduce light pollution, and without them we wouldn’t be able to keep up this important work. They’ll be heading out to take readings on light pollution and feeding this back to our Dark Skies Officer. Without this information we wouldn’t be as able to keep track on light pollution and risk losing our designation. We wish them clear skies over winter as they do their best to keep our skies dark.

Our mobile Observatory is fully kitted out and ready to go! We’ve already had some amazing stargazing evenings, with a thank you session for our volunteer wardens and a very successful evening at Llyn Conwy. Look out for our unmistakable van as we are on our travels around Eryri!

See more here: www.discoveryinthedark.wales/project-nos