Alaska State Parks Light Pollution

Alaska

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 Alaska in regards to light pollution and astronomy.

ItemHow Many
Number Of State Parks72
Number of Different Bortle Scales6
Level 1 Bortle Scale State Parks20
Level 2 Bortle Scale State Parks10
Level 3 Bortle Scale State Parks13
Level 4 Bortle Scale State Parks19
Level 5 Bortle Scale State Parks6
Level 6 Bortle Scale State Parks6
Table 1: State Park Info

Alaska is the largest US state by area, but one of the smallest population. Largest number of Bortle Class 1 state parks

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
Table 3: Bortle Scale Map Marker

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

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