Isle of Coll – Coll Bunkhouse

Location description

Comfortable and cosy hostel accommodation with excellent facilities and the most amazing dark skies. Excellent getaway retreat for anyone keen or interested in astronomy. Venue to the twice annual “Coll & The Cosmos” star-camp.

Private venue

Location accessible out of hours only when stargazing events are scheduled.

Stay & gaze

This location benefits from dark skies, relatively low levels of light pollution, is astronomy friendly and suitable for stargazing breaks.

Tonight's weather forecast

13/04/21

19:00

8°

1%

13/04/21

22:00

5°

1%

14/04/21

01:00

4°

1%

14/04/21

04:00

3°

1%

Location light pollution

This location is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to a dark site setting based on satellite data from CPRE.

When to stargaze at Isle of Coll - Coll Bunkhouse

This location's dark site setting means it benefits from dark skies depending on the time of the year and lunar cycle. In the calendar below where you can see stars indicates when the skies will be dark and the best time to stargaze. Yellow areas show the adverse effects of daylight (bold) and moonlight (faded). Hover over a day to see darkness times or click on a date for more information.

Stargazing events at this location

There are no known forthcoming events at this location. Previously there have been 9 events with the last one being on 17th October 2020 organised by Cosmos Planetarium.