The annual Jasper Dark Sky Festival will return in 2025 with a full programme to celebrate the 15thanniversary of the event.
Each year the festival brings keen astronomers together from across the continent every October for two weeks of a star-studded line-up of speakers, celestial experiences and guided stargazing.
The Jasper Dark Sky Preserve is the second largest dark sky preserve in the world. With very little light pollution, this protected land provides unlimited stargazing spots.
The festival also offers an opportunity to view the Northern Lights as, come autumn, Jasper’s sun begins to set earlier and earlier, giving fans better and better chances of spotting the aurora borealis.
The aurora borealis comes to Jasper around once a week and scientists have predicted that this winter is meant to be one of the best years to view them.
Visitors keen to learn more about the night sky can spend an evening at the locally-owned Jasper Planetarium which offers interactive shows every night of the year in their new 50-seat dome, stargazing excursions using the most powerful telescopes in the Rockies, and special programming throughout the Jasper Dark Sky Festival.
