Vancouver Forum: aurora borealis on August 4th/5th

Currently there is a haze of smoke hanging over the Lower Mainland, Straight of Georgia and Central Vancouver Island from the fires near Lilloet. Lovely morning sunrises but I would have thought that the smoke would interfere with viewing. Have a look out of your plane window!

I have seen the Aurora once from Aldergrove Lake Regional Park, which is about an hour east of the city.

The information from these two links leads me to suggest Burnaby Mountain as a more reasonable possibility.

http://www.spacecentre.ca/sky-watch/sky-watch

sfu.ca/pamr/media_releases/media_releases_ar…

If you are on transit, there is a nightbus (the N35 I think) that runs up to SFU all night, so you could go up to the campus and then walk up to the AQ and look out over the north side for a clear view of reasonable dark sky with a minimum of light interference.

Haze from forest fire smoke is definitely an issue, but it's worth a try!

I, meanwhile, will be in Clearwater! Perfect!!

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