Sean Esopenko

Astrophotography: Clear Calgary Skies Tonight

June 19, 2010

Clear skies are predicted for Calgary tonight according to the Calgary clear sky chart from cleardarksky.com. The humidity is supposed to be at 100% but the weather network doesn’t report rain overnight. Hopefully it will be rain free.

One problem with photographing the night sky is light pollution and Calgary has its share of it. This is a chart created using data from a Calgary light polution map from cleardarksky.com. You have to go pretty far from Calgary to get away from the light pollution.

Our acreage sits right on the border where it goes from red to orange so I’ll be driving East along the 564 until I reach the 21 and go about 10 minutes north from there. It’s a 30 minute drive each way for the promise of much better night time photography. I’ll give it a shot.

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