The Star Count team is pleased to share the results of over 10,000 observations submitted during the first two years of Star Count! More than 31,000 citizen scientists from 60 countries around the world have submitted their reports on the quality of their nighttime sky. See the complete results below from both the 2007 and 2008 campaigns.
2008 Great World Wide Star Count - World Map
Download maps:
2008: World | US & Canada | Europe (all maps are JPEG)
2007: World | US & Canada | Europe (all maps are JPEG)
Download the Star Count datasets:
2008: ESRI Shapefile, Google Earth KMZ, Excel Spreadsheet, or Comma-Separated Text file
2007: ESRI Shapefile, Google Earth KMZ, Excel Spreadsheet, or Comma-Separated Text file
2007 Summary Analysis: Looking Back: The 2007 Great World Wide Star Count (PDF)
Thank you for your contributions to the Great World Wide Star Count! We hope that you will join us for the third annual Star Count on October 9 - 23, 2009 celebrating the International Year of Astronomy!
