Leonids Meteor Shower Peak 2026
The Leonids typically produce around 10-15 meteors per hour, with a waxing crescent-to-first-quarter Moon that sets before midnight, leaving the darkest, best-viewing hours moon-free.
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Find your way to real dark skies
A field guide to dark-sky parks, meteor showers, aurora and eclipses, built for families, road-trippers and lifelong stargazers alike.
Tonight’s moon
Last Quarter
58% illuminated
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The Beaver Moon is the traditional name for this month's full moon.
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Geminids Meteor Shower Peak 2026
The Geminids are usually the strongest shower of the year with up to 120-150 meteors per hour at their peak, and a thin waxing crescent Moon sets in early evening in 2026, leaving nearly the whole night dark.
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Where The Sky Is Still Dark
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AMC Maine Woods
ME
AMC Maine Woods is an International Dark Sky Park in Maine, certified in 2021. Three AMC lodges with cabins operate inside it: Medawisla, Gorman Chairback and Little Lyford, and they offer celestial programming. The park sits at the edge of the North Maine Woods, a largely uninhabited forest of more than 14,000 square kilometers stretching from Monson to the Canadian border.
nocturnal preserve
Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area
AB
Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area is a 4,800-acre natural area southwest of Calgary, Alberta, designated a nocturnal preserve in 2015. It is run as a day-use area, so confirm after-dark access before you go. Staff hold Lunar Walks and Star Nights and join the Dark Sky Country program with Rothney Astrophysical Observatory and RASC Calgary Centre; dates are on the events calendar.
lodging
Antelope Basecamp
OR
Antelope Basecamp is a cabin and camping property in Antelope, Oregon, certified as DarkSky Approved Lodging in 2025. It rents A-frame cabins with two twin beds (some without running water), three partial-hookup RV sites and tent sites, with self check-in. The site advertises clear views of the Milky Way, constellations and meteor showers from a quiet high desert valley.
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Antelope Island State Park
UT
Antelope Island State Park is an island park in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, certified as an International Dark Sky Park in 2017. The park is open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. year-round, so plan to leave by closing time or book a cottage, primitive site, RV site or tent pad. Drones are banned March through November, and rideshares do not pick up here, so bring a car.
The Nightly News
All nightly reports →A hand-picked roundup of night-sky and space news, with our take and a link to every source.
Nightly News
November’s Night Sky Notes: Light-Day Away
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Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula lurks within sight of Hubble and Webb
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The Taurid meteor shower isn't much to look at. That's why I love it
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Tonight
Calculated for Denver, CO (default)The Moon is at Last Quarter tonight
Times shown are for Denver in Mountain time. If you choose to use your location, it is used only in your browser to compute moonrise/moonset and is never sent to a server. Want a different city? Visit the moon tool. Watching for the northern lights? Check NOAA’s aurora forecast (opens in new tab).
Illumination
58%
Moonrise
11:00 PM MDT
Moonset
1:32 PM MDT
Next new moon
Nov 9
Laws By State
Outdoor lighting rules vary a lot from place to place, from statewide lighting codes to small towns with their own shielding rules. We track all 50 US states, DC, and every Canadian province.
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