Star Stories at Abriachan Forest - January 2024
Saturday 20th January 2024 from 20:00pm to 22:00pm
Abriachan Forest Trust
Abriachan, Inverness, Inverness-shire, IV3 8LB
Join the team from Highland Astronomy at Abriachan Forest (a Dark Sky Discovery site) for an evening of stargazing and storytelling under Moonless dark skies.
If conditions are clear, astronomer Stephen Mackintosh will guide you under the Milky Way class dark skies of Abriachan Forest (with a backup indoor astronomy presentation if clouds roll in). In addition, a guest speaker will accompany Stephen, who will present an informal talk on an astronomy topic.
Due to site and classroom capacity, booking via Eventbrite is essential. Admission is free for under 16s with accompanying adults, but please inform Abriachan of any large booking requests.
Please note that this has already taken place on 20/01/2024
Event organiser
Highland Astronomy is organising this event
Please contact Highland Astronomy directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
Email: [email protected]
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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 20th Jan
Local light pollution
Abriachan Forest Trust 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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