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Algonquin stargazing forecast — Friday, August 14

Nipissing, ON · Bortle 3 · 45.583, -78.350 · Snapshot generated Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:05:06 GMT

Excellent   (High confidence)

7h of clear sky (≤30% cloud) during tonight's astronomical night, mean cloud 30%.

Best observing window tonight

Fri 5:00 p.m. – Fri 11:00 p.m. (7h, 0% mean cloud)

Astronomical night
Fri 4:23 p.m. → Sat 2:14 a.m.
Moon
New moon · 2% illuminated
Mean cloud (during night)
30%   (min 0%)

Site

Algonquin is the size of Prince Edward Island and most of it has never seen a streetlight. Park your car on the Highway 60 corridor, walk fifty paces from the road and you're standing under skies that haven't changed since Tom Thomson painted Canoe Lake here in 1917. The loon calls do not stop, and that becomes part of the experience.

Drive from Toronto: ≈ 3 hours north via Highway 400 and Highway 60.

Best time of year: September and October — bugs are gone, the air is dry, and the Milky Way is still high overhead by 9 p.m. Avoid weekends if you can; the corridor fills.

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Citations & data sources

This is a build-time snapshot — the live forecast at https://ontarionightsky.com/?site=algonquin updates continuously.