Stargazing Evening at Ansty Farm Shop
Tuesday 26th November 2024 from 19:30pm to 21:30pm
Ansty Pick Your Own and Farm Shop
Anstry, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 5PX, South West
Learn more about the sky at night and our wonderful dark sky environment at this free event.
Do bring your own binoculars or telescope if you have them. A number of telescopes will also be set up to show a selection of planets, star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae.
This is a free event, but booking is essential.
Please note that this has already taken place on 26/11/2024
Event organiser
Dark Night Skies Cranborne Chase National Landscape is organising this event
Please contact Dark Night Skies Cranborne Chase National Landscape 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.
Tue 26th Nov
Local light pollution
Ansty Pick Your Own and Farm Shop 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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Semi-rural
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Dark site
The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.
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