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- Best use
- Milky Way, meteor showers, and deep-sky viewing
- Planning signal
- Dark-window target
- Route context
- 3 Stella stays within 350 km
Certified dark-sky park
Headlands International Dark Sky Park
MI, United States · Rural sky skies
About this place
- Overview
- Northern Michigan park with unobstructed views over Lake Michigan
- Horizon
- Open lake horizon to the north and west; unobstructed
- Region
- MI, United States
- Nearest city
- ~40 km of light pollution
Designation & sky
- Type
- Dark-Sky Park
- Designation
- IDA Dark Sky Park
- Sky quality
- Bortle 3 · Rural sky
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