This issue (Sept/Oct 2014) of SkyNews Magazine, I did an extended (4 pages, instead of the normal 1-2) on Wood Buffalo National Park, in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories/Alberta border (world’s largest dark sky preserve, larger than Switzerland or the moon Mimas – with aurora-viewing is superior to that near cities such as Yellowknife.)
Here below are the links to further info that the magazine piece mentioned you could find here:
more on the park’s 30-seat digital planetarium in the park visitor centre
- 3rd Annual Thebacha & Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival, will be hosted on August 22 – 24, 2014 in and around Fort Smith and the Park
- 4th Annual Thebacha & Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival will be hosted on August 21 to 23, 2015 (further info on this will be online in 2015)
Accommodations
- Food
– Pelican Rapids Inn/Pelican Boardroom
ALSO, as-promised here is a little more info on the Northern Lighthouse project:
http://www.northernlighthouse.ca
Also, here’s some more info on the new find about Northern Lights activity being constant year-over-year:
http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/news/northwest-territories-stakes-claim-being-aurora-capital-world
And finally, here’s a gallery of aurora photographer Yuichi Takasaka’s images of the Northern Lights over an entire 11-year solar cycle (note how they remain constant over that cycle):
http://blue-moon.ca/tonight%27s_aurora.html