Night Sky Navigation at RSPB St Aidan's
Tuesday 25th February 2025 from 19:30pm to 21:30pm
RSPB St Aidan's Nature Park
Astley Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26 8AL
Led by the Wakefield and District Astronomical Society, this interactive session will allow you to learn about how the night sky has been used as an aid for navigation across land and water. It will also describe how you can learn to observe the night sky, and use major star constellations and the patterns they form, to navigate to other interesting celestial objects such as galaxies, star clusters and numerous deep-space objects. There will be a range of telescopes and other optical equipment so you can compare the views through each. Feel free to bring along your equipment if you have something suitable.
Please note that this has already taken place on 25/02/2025
Event organiser
RSPB is organising this event
Please contact RSPB directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
Email: [email protected]
Website: RSPB
Twitter: @Natures_Voice
Facebook: RSPB
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.
Tue 25th Feb
Local light pollution
RSPB St Aidan's Nature Park 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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