North Carolina State Parks Light Pollution

North Carolina

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 North Carolina in regards to light pollution and astronomy.

ItemHow Many
Number Of State Parks40
Number of Different Bortle Scales6
Level 1 Bortle Scale State Parks0
Level 2 Bortle Scale State Parks0
Level 3 Bortle Scale State Parks2
Level 4 Bortle Scale State Parks7
Level 5 Bortle Scale State Parks20
Level 6 Bortle Scale State Parks10
Level 7 Bortle Scale State Parks0
Level 8 Bortle Scale State Parks1
Table 1: State Park Info

North Carolina 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 North Carolina State Parks official website can be found here.

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