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Solarsphere Astronomical & Music Festival 2020

Solarsphere Astronomical & Music Festival 2020

Saturday 15th August 2020 from 12:00pm to Sunday 16th August 2020 22:00pm

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Solarsphere Astronomy Festival @ Penmaenau Farm
Builth Wells, Llanelwedd, LD2 3RD

Solarsphere Astronomy and Music Festival 2020 will take place online via www.astroradio.earth due to Covid-19 preventing the Festival being able to go ahead at Penmaenau Farm in Builth Wells, Wales. As per the physical Festival, the online version will be a mixture of music from a variety of artists, to include music from artists who have played at the festival. There will of course, also be, talks and interviews with presentations being held via via Zoom. Tune in on August 15th and 16th (from 12pm-10pm both days) for a weekend full of science and music!

Please note that this event has already taken place on 15/08/2020

Event organiser

Solarsphere Events

Solarsphere Events is organising this event

Please contact Solarsphere Events directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.

Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.solarsphere.events
Twitter: @Solarsphere2016
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Event booking

For full details on how to attend this event, including how to book, please see the event's official 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.

Sat 15th Aug

Waning Crescent
20% illuminated
Dark from 21:04 to 01:16
Dark for 4h 11m

Sun 16th Aug

Waning Crescent
12% illuminated
Dark from 21:02 to 02:21
Dark for 5h 18m

Local light pollution

Solarsphere Astronomy Festival @ Penmaenau Farm is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to arural rural location based on data from the VIIRS satellite.

The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.

Light pollution map of Solarsphere Astronomy Festival @ Penmaenau Farm

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