Space Lates at the National Space Centre - Backyard Astronomy
Friday 20th January 2023 from 18:00pm to 21:00pm
National Space Centre
Exploration Drive, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 5NS
Space Lates is an evening created for people who want to know more – those who have an interest in astronomy, space missions, and the exciting research happening here in the UK, around the world, and out in space.
For this Space Lates, the topic is “backyard astronomy”, focusing on beginners’ telescopes and observing stars and planets.
The team at the National Space Centre will curate a special evening packed with guest speakers, interactive workshops and live demos, planetarium shows, and stargazing.
Explore the galleries after hours and finish your evening with a live astronomy session with the Leicester Astronomical Society (weather permitting).
By booking the sleepover ticket, you can enjoy all the activities, workshops, talks, breakfast and, of course, a most unusual place to sleep.
Event organiser
National Space Centre is organising this event
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Event booking
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Visit event websiteEvent 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 Jan
Local light pollution
National Space Centre is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to an urban location based on data from the VIIRS satellite.
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The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.
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