Stargazing 2023 at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Friday 27th January 2023 from 17:30pm to 20:30pm
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, South East
The 2023 Stargazing at RAL will have plenty of activities for the whole family, whatever the weather. There’ll be meteorites, rocket building, comet making, face-painting, a series of fascinating talks, robots and stargazing.
We’ll have experts on hand to explain how they use the Diamond Light Source to learn more about meteorites and comets, and you’ll be able to visit the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source to learn how we use particle accelerators to learn more about space.
Planetarium shows will run throughout the evening (ages 5+ only), but places on these are limited owing to the size of our planetaria, and so are allocated by lottery.
There will be tours of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Experimental Hall throughout the evening, but places on these are limited and so are allocated by lottery. Due to health and safety restrictions, these tours are only suitable for those aged eleven or over.
Tickets will be released on Friday, 13 January, at 07:30, 12:00 and 19:00.
Once the event is fully booked, you can sign up to our waiting list.
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 27th Jan
Local light pollution
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to asemi-rural semi-rural location based on data from the VIIRS satellite.
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Dark site
The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.
Forthcoming events
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