Milky Way & Galaxies stargazing session (free)
Friday 25th November 2022 from 18:00pm to 20:00pm
Braes of Glenlivet Village Hall
Chapeltown, Ballindalloch, Banffshire, AB37 9JS
This free-to-join stargazing session takes place during the New Moon. This is the best time of the month to observe faint objects such as galaxies and star clusters because there is no moonlight to interfere.
Participants will be notified before the session in the event of inclement weather.
Funded by Foundation Scotland from the Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund.
Please note that this has already taken place on 25/11/2022
Event organiser
Tomintoul and Glenlivet Dark Sky Park is organising this event
Please contact Tomintoul and Glenlivet Dark Sky Park directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
Email: [email protected]
Website: Tomintoul and Glenlivet Dark Sky Park
Facebook: Tomintoul and Glenlivet Dark Sky Park
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.
Fri 25th Nov
Local light pollution
Braes of Glenlivet Village Hall is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to adark site dark site 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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