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Tag: dark skies

  • Preserving international dark skies at Quetico

    Today’s post comes from Chris Stromberg, Acting Backcountry Operations Specialist at Quetico Provincial Park and Coordinator for the Heart of the Continent Partnership. This past July, four teams of Ontario Parks and US Forest Service wilderness rangers / park wardens went into the woods to observe the nights of the new moon. Along with their…

  • Zodiacal light and the gegenschein

    The importance of having dark sky preserves cannot be understated. In addition to the many benefits already described previously in our blog, you can see many things that others can’t from the light-polluted skies of our urban and, increasingly, our rural locations. The zodiacal light and the gegenschein are two phenomena known for centuries, but…

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