Stargazing at Clatteringshaws with Dark Sky Ranger
Friday 14th April 2023 from 19:00pm to 21:00pm
Clatteringshaws Visitor Centre
Clatteringshaws House, Near New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, DG7 3SQ
Join Matthew the Dark Sky Ranger for a stargazing experience out of this world!
Learn to navigate and tell the time by the stars and enjoy stories of myths and legends from our ancestors. Observe nebulae and galaxies, the planets Venus and Mars and the Milky Way. Clatteringshaws Loch offers an incredible destination to explore the dark skies of Galloway Dark Sky Park.
Please get in touch with Matthew to book via email.
Please note that this has already taken place on 14/04/2023
Event organiser
Dark Sky Ranger is organising this event
Please contact Dark Sky Ranger directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
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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.
Fri 14th Apr
Local light pollution
Clatteringshaws Visitor Centre is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to adark site dark site location based on the latest data from the VIIRS satellite.
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The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.
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