{"id":2669,"date":"2014-10-23T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2014-10-23T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T11:40:12","slug":"heavenly-discover-stargazing-21102014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/heavenly-discover-stargazing-21102014","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly; Discover Stargazing 21\/10\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was our first Druridge Bay Discover Stargazing session and six enthusiastic participants enjoyed views of the <em><strong>Milky Way<\/strong><\/em>, the<em><strong> Plough, Cassiopeia, Arcturus, Cygnus<\/strong><\/em>, plenty of satellites, and even naked-eye views of the <em><strong>Andromeda Galaxy &#8211;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 2.5 million light years away, and heading towards us at more than 100 km\/s, but light travels at 299792458 m\/s so we don&#8217;t have to worry about it just yet \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 Probably the most interesting observation was of a satellite crossing the sky from east to west, almost as bright as the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>So, conclusions from our first Druridge Bay stargazing session;<\/p>\n<p>Even close to the former industrial heartland of Northumberland, and close to the county&#8217;s population centre, you can still have a great dark sky experience \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It can quickly turn bone-chillingly cold once it gets dark \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was our first Druridge Bay Discover Stargazing session and six enthusiastic participants enjoyed views of the Milky Way, the Plough, Cassiopeia, Arcturus, Cygnus, plenty of satellites, and even naked-eye views of the Andromeda Galaxy &#8211;\u00a0 2.5 million light years away, and heading towards us at more than 100 km\/s, but light travels at 299792458 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,9],"tags":[661,663,671,673,667,669,665],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-skies","category-druridge","tag-andromeda-galaxy","tag-arcturus","tag-cassiopeia","tag-cygnus","tag-milky-way","tag-satellite","tag-the-plough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}