Leafbros, what happens here? I want to see the milky way during the next new moon and the area circled in red is the closest place to me I can do that.
Canada stargazing
Leafbros, what happens here? I want to see the milky way during the next new moon and the area circled in red is the closest place to me I can do that.
From quickly Google mapping it... looks like a ton of wilderness, lakes, and "provincial parks".
yea thats highway 7 or 17 I forget.. hard to get there, the lake is huge. Just some small native towns with alcoholics along the lake. Thunder Bay and Kenora are the closest things to civilization. Lots of black bears but no grizzlys I think.
Could I get away with putting up a tent somewhere? Or is there a place to stay in the native towns?
easily. just take some bear spray. you cant bring it across the border so buy it somewhere. pick up your garbage and keep food 100m from your tent overnight.
>bears
Oh fuck, how much of a concern are they.
just lock the food in your car if you are out in a wild place where bears have not learned to smash and grab like hairy naggers with paws
OP I hope you know the high-exposure images of the milky way you see online are impossible to see with the naked eye. I grew up in one of the dark spots on that map, I guarantee you'll be disappointed if you go out there looking for the super-saturated pics you saw on reddit.
The natural night sky is beautiful as it is and all people should have a special relationship with it.
>could i get away with putting up a tent somewhere
https://www.youtube.com/@campingwithsteve
Which of those videos would you like me to view to answer that question
>knowing what gets posted on reddit
You have to go back.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/recreational-activities-on-crown-land
when i was a kid, i went on a family camping trip to manitoulin island and saw the milky way. i don't remember anyone mentioning bears out there unlike the other camping trips i went on.
I went stargazing in Torrance barrens. I've spent my entire life in the city, so it was astounding to see the sky like that, filled with so many stars. My eyes almost couldn't believe it, the sky was was white despite being nighttime. The road there was also fun for me, pitch black, winding, winding roads. But you do have to be careful considering there are no lights and how many sharp turns there are on the road, like every 5 seconds. I almost hit a cat that jumped out of the forest.
The light pollution maps I’ve seen don’t show that place to be particularly dark. Is it?
You've clearly done more research than me but it was totally dark when I went. Like I said, there weren't even streetlights on the road to get there. Plus on the website it talks about how it's a dark sky preserve and it's particularly suited for stargazing and stuff like that, but that's for you to judge
They do show it as dark as the area you circled. Look at the south end of saskatchewan in the centre, then look slightly west. Thats grasslands national park
Also
>Picrel
Tfw you live in southern onterrible and the nearest dark sky area is over 300km away
Grasslands national park in Saskatchewan is best for this.
The fuck is going on in North Dakota
I think it's a big military base
Also oil and gas extraction.
the manatoulin dark sky preserve/gordons park is a a good bet and used to frequently have "star partys". i met an amateur astronomer who said the clearest sky hes ever seen was on manatoulin island and there was so many stars his group even lost track of the big dipper although he made the hike to the spot sound more complicated then the dark sky preserve so there may be a nicer secret spot on the island. if youre into non technical short trails theres loads on manatoulin island and would be worth spending the weekend there i can recommend the cup and saucer trail and bridal vail falls personally.