Stargazing & Storytelling Evening at Coombe Bissett
Tuesday 26th October 2021 from 18:30pm to 21:00pm
Coombe Bissett Cricket Club
Combe Bissett, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 4LU
Join astronomers and the team from Cranborne Chase AONB International Dark Sky Reserve for an evening of celestial stargazing and storytelling. Learn more about the sky at night and our wonderful dark skies at this free event!
The team will have binoculars and some telescopes to help you see the stars and planets but please feel free to bring your own.
Prior booking is required via the Eventbrite website.
Please note that this has already taken place on 26/10/2021
Event organiser
Dark Night Skies Cranborne Chase AONB is organising this event
Please contact Dark Night Skies Cranborne Chase AONB directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
Email: info@cranbornechase.org.uk
Website: Dark Night Skies Cranborne Chase AONB
Twitter: @CranborneChase
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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 Oct
Local light pollution
Coombe Bissett Cricket Club is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to asemi-rural semi-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.