West Midlands stargazers flock to Rockbridge Country Holiday Park for dark skies near Presteigne

West Midlands stargazers flock to Rockbridge Country Holiday Park for dark skies near Presteigne

West Midlanders looking for Dark Skies

Struggling to keep the universe in sight

A satellite image of Texas at night shows the lights of cities and towns throughout most of the state. But in the Big Bend region along the Rio Grande, in the borderlands of Big Bend National Park and across the river in northern Mexico, light gives way to a jet-black void.What you do not see is the Greater Big Bend International Dark Sky Reserve (DSR), an area of more than 15,000 square miles in which nighttime lighting is strictly controlled t…