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Blackcleugh Camping after the refit

Blackcleugh Camping

Site
Campsite, Upper Coquetdale
Year
2025
Lights
4 → 4
Sky reading
21.78 mag/arcsec²

Eight bell tents and a camping barn, sold on dark skies, lit by two 5700 K path poles and a floodlight on the barn.

Guests left reviews about the floodlight. The path poles lit the inside of the nearest tents more than the path.

Before and after

Drag to switch the old lights off.

Blackcleugh Camping before: glare from the old lights Blackcleugh Camping after: shielded warm lights and the Milky Way Before · 330 starsAfter · 3,890 stars
Stars in view3303,890
Light above 90°3,224 lm0 lm
Electricity a year644 kWh49 kWh
Sky reading21.7821.78
What we changed

Light by light.

BeforeAfter
Two path poles, 3,000 lm each, 5700 KThree louvred bollards, 150 lm, 2200 K
Barn floodlight, 8,000 lm, tilted upFlat-glass wall light, 700 lm, 2700 K
Globe light at the toilet blockBollard, on a motion sensor
“Guests used to mention the floodlight in their reviews. Now they mention the stars.”
Mark Hedley, Blackcleugh Camping