EDMONTON -- The University of Alberta will become Western Canada's only university with a dark sky preserve observatory when it opens its new facility in Miquelon Lake Provincial Park Tuesday. “This is one of the only observatories that has the benefit of being in a designated dark sky preserve,” Glynnis Hood, manager of the research station and an environmental sciences professor at Augustana Campus, said in a news release. “We can now have a very unhindered view of the sky, and to be able to see it in a more natural format reflects the importance of having dark sky preserves.”