Dark Skies Festival Stargazing evening Raincliffe Woods
Friday 27th October 2023 from 19:30pm to 21:30pm
Raincliffe Woods Community Woodland
Low Road, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO12 5TD
Join Raincliffe Wood Community Enterprise and Scarborough and Ryedale Astronomical Society to explore the Dark Skies over Raincliffe Woods.
This evening of stargazing will hopefully have a lovely view over Forge Valley to the south and all the way up to Troutdale in the North. This event is free and is suitable for people of all ages.
Scarborough and Ryedale Astronomical Society will be bringing along some of there fancy telescopes that people will be able to use their phones to view what they are looking at, so please download the Unistellar app before coming along to get the most out of this experience.
This event is part of the North York Moors Dark Skies Fringe Festival 2023.
Please note that this has already taken place on 27/10/2023
Event organiser
North York Moors National Park is organising this event
Please contact North York Moors National Park directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
Email: [email protected]
Website: North York Moors National Park
Twitter: @northyorkmoors
Facebook: North York Moors National Park
Event booking
For full details on how to attend this event, including how to book, please see the event's official website.
Visit event websiteEvent 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.
Fri 27th Oct
Local light pollution
Raincliffe Woods Community Woodland is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to asemi-rural semi-rural 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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