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The University of Alberta has a new option for looking into the night sky at its new Hesje Observatory, located at the Augustana Miquelon Lake Research Station.
This new observatory will allow students, researchers and members of the public to see the night sky with no light pollution through a PlaneWave 17” Corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope.
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The observatory, located in Miquelon Lake Provincial Park roughly 60 km southeast of Edmonton, is set to open virtually on Jan. 12 at 6:30 p.m. through a webinar.
EDMONTON The University of Alberta will become Western Canada s only university with a dark sky preserve observatory when it opens its new facility in Miquelon Lake Provincial Park Tuesday. “This is one of the only observatories that has the benefit of being in a designated dark sky preserve,” Glynnis Hood, manager of the research station and an environmental sciences professor at Augustana Campus, said in a news release. “We can now have a very unhindered view of the sky, and to be able to see it in a more natural format reflects the importance of having dark sky preserves.”