Daresbury Laboratory Open Day 2023
Saturday 15th July 2023 from 10:00am to 16:00pm
Daresbury Laboratory
Keckwick Lane, Daresbury, Cheshire, WA4 4FS
The Daresbury Laboratory Open Day hosts over 100 hands-on activities for visitors of all ages! For example, in their Space Zone, you can marvel at a giant sun, get up close with meteorites and meet the engineers who keep astronomy instruments super cool, and lots more! This is a free event; prior booking via Eventbrite is required.
Please note that this has already taken place on 15/07/2023
Event booking
Event darkness
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.
Sat 15th Jul
Local light pollution
Daresbury Laboratory is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to asuburban suburban location based on the latest data from the VIIRS satellite.
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Dark site
The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.
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