# About Dark Skies Directory

What Dark Skies Directory is, who it is for, and the editorial standards it holds to.

## What this is

Dark Skies Directory is a directory and calendar for people in the United States and Canada who plan travel and camping around celestial events: eclipses, aurora, meteor showers, and certified dark sky places. It is written for beginners and kids taking their first look at the night sky, and for advanced amateurs who want the primary source behind every claim.

## Editorial standards

Every factual claim on this site carries an inline link to its primary source: NASA, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, the US Naval Observatory, DarkSky International, the International Meteor Organization, the American Meteor Society, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, state legislatures, and municipal codes, among others. Nothing is published without a source, and nothing is invented: if a fact cannot be verified, it is left out rather than guessed at.

[Nightly News](/nightly-news) is an automated daily digest: each night's items are compiled from the same primary sources cited across the rest of the site, and every item carries its source link plus an editorial note explaining how it was compiled. It is not written by a newsroom staff, and the site does not claim otherwise.

## Machine readability

This site is built to be read by people and machines alike. Every page is available as HTML, Markdown, and JSON at the same path. See [/research](/research) for the primary sources behind the data, and [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) for a machine-readable index of the site.

---
Canonical: https://darkskiesdirectory.com/about