Dark Skies Weekend at The Boat Country Inn

Name: Dark Skies Weekend at The Boat Country Inn
Start: 2025-02-21T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-23T12:00:00+00:00
Location: The Boat Country Inn

Friday 21st February 2025 from 16:00pm to Sunday 23rd February 2025 12:00pm

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The Boat Country Inn
Deshar Road, Aviemore, Inverness-shire, PH24 3BH, Scotland

Enjoy a break away from light-polluted towns and cities and experience stunning star-filled skies and if we are really, really lucky the Aurora Borealis*!

You’ll be joined by John Halliday from Strathspey Tours, a storyteller and guide who will take you out under the open dark skies close to the hotel.

Offer Includes:
– 2 night stay for two
– Breakfast each morning
– Dinner each night
– A mini session on how to use mobile phones for night photography (phone requires a night setting)
– General talk about the constellations and the Greek, Roman and Celtic mythology behind them

Please note that this has already taken place on 21/02/2025

Event booking

For more information and bookings please see The Boat Country Inn website.

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Event darkness

The Moon has a big impact on the visibility of celestial bodies in the night sky. Try to plan your stargazing when there is no bright Moon at night as this is when the skies will be at their darkest.

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.