We had a great meeting today at the Tomintoul Single Malt Whisky HQ about our Dark Skies of Tomintoul & Glenlivet project. It all helps to bring us one step closer to our (fingers crossed!) International Dark-Sky Association application to become the world’s most northerly Dark Sky Park.
The old sodium street lights at Chapeltown have now been replaced with new full cut off LED lighting. This should make a huge difference to the amount of light pollution visible from Scalan and the surrounding area.
We had a great meeting last Thursday with representatives from The Glenlivet and Braeval distilleries. We are delighted that they have agreed to support us with our Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland Dark Skies project.
We will be working together to promote environmentally responsible lighting in the Tomintoul & Glenlivet Landscape Partnership area.
Reduced light pollution is beneficial for all sorts of reasons. Find out more on our Dark Skies Project page.
Our new 8″ Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope was delivered this afternoon.
We are looking forward to giving it it’s first outing at our “King of Planets” event on Saturday night.
Street lighting replacement in Tomintoul is well under way. Old sodium units are being replaced with new full cut off LED lighting and making a huge difference to the levels of light pollution and energy wastage. Over half of all the outside lighting in the Landscape Partnership area is now dark sky friendly.
In the picture of Tomnabat Lane below there are four of the old street lights in the foreground and seven of the new LED’s in the background.
