Now, we know a lot more about the lights than the cavemen or Vikings did, we have scientific facts that explain them and how they occur but even then, don’t these breathtaking lights that dance across our skies still seem like magic?
A dark sky is a location, usually very rural, where there is zero light pollution, and the night sky can be observed with such clarity that a myriad of stars & galaxies are clearly visible. Dark sky sites, such as the Dark Sky Theatre on the Isle of Gigha, are proving increasingly popular destinations for amateur astronomists around the world.
A winter halo is an ice crystal optical phenomenon which results in a perfect ring of apparent radius of 22 degrees forms all the way around the moon (or the sun).
