Stargazing Evening at Kingston Deverill
Friday 20th October 2023 from 19:00pm to 22:00pm
Kingston Deverill Village Hall
Kingston Deverill, Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12 7HG
Learn more about the sky at night and our wonderful dark sky environment on Cranborne Chase AONB, an International Dark Sky reserve.
Join this free event. Bring your binoculars or telescope if you have them. Several 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 20/10/2023
Event organiser
Dark Night Skies Cranborne Chase AONB is organising this event
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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 20th Oct
Local light pollution
Kingston Deverill Village Hall 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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Rural
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Dark site
The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.