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Binbrook stargazing forecast — Friday, August 14

Hamilton, ON · Bortle 5 · 43.117, -79.800 · Snapshot generated Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:05:06 GMT

Excellent   (High confidence)

6h of clear sky (≤30% cloud) during tonight's astronomical night, mean cloud 19%.

Best observing window tonight

Fri 5:00 p.m. – Fri 10:00 p.m. (6h, 4% mean cloud)

Astronomical night
Fri 4:23 p.m. → Sat 2:25 a.m.
Moon
New moon · 2% illuminated
Mean cloud (during night)
19%   (min 0%)

Site

Binbrook is the honest answer to 'where can I observe on a Tuesday night?' for the half-million people stretched along the QEW between Mississauga and Niagara. The skyglow over Hamilton is real and there is no pretending Toronto isn't sitting twenty kilometres east. But the gates lock at sunset, the parking lot is paved, and the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers have been running public nights here for years — which means somebody almost always has a telescope set up.

Drive from Toronto: ≈ 1 hour west via the QEW.

Best time of year: Crisp, dry winter nights between November and February — when low humidity actually punches through the city skyglow and Orion sits high overhead.

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Citations & data sources

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