Beyond the Solar System with Professor Roger Davies
Tuesday 22nd October 2024 from 19:00pm to 21:00pm
South Molton Town Hall
Broad Street, South Molton, Devon, EX36 3AB, South West England
The search for distant worlds: the incredible story of the discovery of planets beyond the Solar System
We are delighted to welcome back Professor Roger Davies from Oxford University to our Dark Skies Festival this year to lead an informative talk at South Molton.
Join him as he delves beyond the Solar System and explains how Voyager’s famous picture of the `pale blue dot’ showed just how small and isolated planet Earth is. How could astronomers possibly find planets orbiting around other stars?
We’ll trace the story of this discovery, one of the most important of the twentieth century, and the follow-up work which has resulted in the detection of over 5000 `exo-planets’.
This event takes place as part of the Exmoor Dark Skies Festival 2024, running from the 18th of October to the 3rd November.
Event organiser
Exmoor National Park is organising this event
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The below chart shows if and when the skies will be at their darkest during this event. Moonlight is shown in light yellow and the Sun's twilight in light blue. Midnight on the date shown is shown as a white line with sunset to the left and sunrise the next morning to the right. A black background with stars shows the best times for stargazing.
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South Molton Town Hall is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to an urban location based on the latest data from the VIIRS satellite.
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The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.
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