Saturday 2026-11-07

Badlands National Park

Interior, SD

83 Good night. No moon all night, clear skies.

Astronomical darkness 6:11pm–4:56am (10.75h)

Milky Way core only reaches 0.6°, low enough that haze takes most of it.

Why

Cloud	98	1% cloud, essentially clear
Moon	100	new moon, below the horizon all night, so no moonlight at all
Darkness	100	10h45m of astronomical darkness, 6:11pm–4:56am
Transparency	91	Dewpoint spread 11.1°C, dry and steady air
Targets	0	Leonids running, about 0 an hour at best