Florida State Parks Light Pollution

Florida

As we previously did articles on the 2024 solar eclipse for the several state parks, and figure that there is an amazing opportunity for mapping those state parks to their Bortle Scale values. With the help of https://www.lightpollutionmap.info, we created the following table to provide information about the entire state parks for Florida in regards to light pollution and astronomy.

ItemHow Many
Number Of State Parks158
Number of Different Bortle Scales7
Level 1 Bortle Scale State Parks0
Level 2 Bortle Scale State Parks5
Level 3 Bortle Scale State Parks14
Level 4 Bortle Scale State Parks29
Level 5 Bortle Scale State Parks52
Level 6 Bortle Scale State Parks31
Level 7 Bortle Scale State Parks17
Level 8 Bortle Scale State Parks10
Table 1: State Park Info

Florida is just 1 of X parks to not have any Class 1 or Class 2 Bortle scale parts. However, there are 3 Class 3 Bortle scales with the majority of parks being Level 5.

Map

Here is a show of the colors of the markers, to know how to read the map.

ColorBortle Scale
BlackLevel 1
Dark PurpleLevel 2
BlueLevel 3
GreenLevel 4
YellowLevel 5
OrangeLevel 6
RedLevel 7
WhiteLevel 8
Table 2: Bortle Scale Map Marker

To learn more about the Bortle Scale, check out this article. The Florida State Parks official website can be found here.

1 Comment on "Florida State Parks Light Pollution"

  1. Jeffrey Klocko | June 17, 2024 at 6:11 pm | Reply

    Your blog is a work of art.

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