Space Lates at the National Space Centre - September 2023 (with sleepover)
Friday 22nd September 2023 from 18:00pm to 21:00pm
National Space Centre
Exploration Drive, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 5NS
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to visit the National Space Centre in Leicester for an evening of fantastic guest speakers, planetarium shows, interactive workshops, and live demos. There will also be an opportunity to explore their galleries after hours and join in stargazing using telescopes with astronomers from the Leicester Astronomical Society. For this event, there is also an option to sleep over!
Please note that this has already taken place on 22/09/2023
Event organiser
National Space Centre is organising this event
Please contact National Space Centre directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
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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.
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.
Fri 22nd Sep
Local light pollution
National Space Centre is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to an urban 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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