Watching Space Dust with Simon from Bath Astronomers

Name: Watching Space Dust with Simon from Bath Astronomers
Start: 2021-10-30T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-10-30T13:00:00+00:00
Location: St Mary's Church Hall - Marlborough

Saturday 30th October 2021 from 13:00pm to 14:00pm

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St Mary's Church Hall - Marlborough
Silverless Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1JQ

This talk by Simon Holbeche of Bath Astronomers follows the dust from supernova to your garden. After the creation of the Solar System there was still a lot of dust around and for billions of years, as the finest of grains or the largest of space rocks, has been drawn in by Earth’s mass and created spectacular fireworks in our skies for dinosaurs and the humans alike as huge quantities of rock are vaporised each day.

This event takes place as part of the Marlborough Dark Skies Fest 2021.

Please note that this has already taken place on 30/10/2021

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Event darkness

The Moon has a big impact on the visibility of celestial bodies in the night sky. Try to plan your stargazing when there is no bright Moon at night as this is when the skies will be at their darkest.

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 30th Oct

Third Quarter

38 % illuminated

Dark from 17:57 to 00:40

Dark for 6h 42m

Local light pollution

St Mary's Church Hall - Marlborough is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to an urban location based on the latest data from the VIIRS satellite.