Dark Skies Weekend at The Boat Country Inn
Friday 17th January 2025 from 16:00pm to Sunday 19th January 2025 12:00pm
The Boat Country Inn
Deshar Road, Aviemore, Inverness-shire, PH24 3BH, Scotland
Enjoy a break away from light-polluted towns and cities and experience stunning star-filled skies and if we are really, really lucky the Aurora Borealis*!
You’ll be joined by John Halliday from Strathspey Tours, a storyteller and guide who will take you out under the open dark skies close to the hotel.
Offer Includes:
– 2 night stay for two
– Breakfast each morning
– Dinner each night
– A mini session on how to use mobile phones for night photography (phone requires a night setting)
– General talk about the constellations and the Greek, Roman and Celtic mythology behind them
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 17th Jan
Sat 18th Jan
Sun 19th Jan
Local light pollution
The Boat Country Inn 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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Urban
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Suburban
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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.
Forthcoming events
Below is a list of events at The Boat Country Inn. View these events on our calendar, add them to your calendar or Google Calendar.