Minnesota is home to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) which is the second largest International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world.
To celebrate our dark skies, Planetarium staff will be traveling along the North Shore stopping at different locations each night for a star party.
You can enjoy fun activities and presentations or planetarium shows. Once it gets dark, you can gaze through telescopes and get a live sky tour of the stars and constellations visible.
We will also be on the lookout for meteors from the Perseid meteor shower which peaks Aug 12th-13th. If it’s cloudy, don’t worry! We will still have fun activities and digital sky tours so you can learn what to look for when it clears up.