Night time safari and stargazing
Saturday 9th March 2024 from 20:00pm to 22:00pm
St Fillans Golf Club
South Loch Earn Road, St Fillans, Perthshire, PH6 2NJ, Scotland
Explore St Fillans Golf Course at night and discover what wildlife is lurking in the shadows using night-vision equipment (thermal imaging and infrared). We have a good chance of hearing or seeing long-eared owl, barn owl, deer, pine marten, hedgehog and stoat.
If the sky is clear we will also use our binoculars and telescopes to experience the winter constellations and maybe even make a wish on a shooting star.
We will meet up in the Golf Course car park at 8pm. Bring a torch if you have one and wrap up warm. We’ll provide the special hot chocolate.
Kids go free!
Please note that this has already taken place on 09/03/2024
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 9th Mar
Local light pollution
St Fillans Golf Club is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to arural 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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