Wild About Dark Skies Free Community Event - Crowhurst

Name: Wild About Dark Skies Free Community Event - Crowhurst
Start: 2023-02-18T14:30:00+00:00
End: 2023-02-18T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Crowhurst Village Hall

Saturday 18th February 2023 from 14:30pm to 17:00pm

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Crowhurst Village Hall
Forewood Lane, Crowhurst, East Sussex, TN33 9AJ

This FREE event in Crowhurst will allow you to learn all about the impact of light pollution on wildlife and humans and about the wonder of the stars.

Book tickets to find out about:

‘Wildlife at Night’ with Dr John Feltwell. John is a chartered environmentalist and biologist who has written 43 books on why wildlife matters

‘Why reducing light pollution matters’ by Paul Gregory. Paul sits on the International Dark-Sky Association Technical Committee and is one of the founding directors of the IDA- UK Chapter.

‘D in the High Weald’, with East Sussex Astronomical Society. Learn about the ‘Don’t light me up’ project with local astronomer Doug Edworthy.

This event takes place as part of the Wild About Dark Skies Festival 2023.

Please note that this has already taken place on 18/02/2023

Event organiser

High Weald National Landscape is organising this event

Please contact High Weald National Landscape directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.

Email: [email protected]
Website: High Weald National Landscape
Twitter: @highweald
Facebook: High Weald National Landscape

Event booking

Please reserve your free space on this event via the Eventbrite website.

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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 18th Feb

Waning Crescent

8 % illuminated

Dark from 18:31 to 05:50

Dark for 11h 18m

Local light pollution

Crowhurst Village Hall is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to asemi-rural semi-rural location based on the latest data from the VIIRS satellite.