Last Friday was an event that I’d been eagerly anticipating; leading a stargazing event at Kirknewton for the Northumberland National Park Authority.<\/p>\n
Rain and sleet on the journey north wasn’t particularly promising, so I arrived at the village hall and set everything out for a slide show (just in case the weather didn’t cooperate…).\u00a0 When Duncan arrived we set up a couple of telescopes in the hall, ready to be deployed outside if the cloud cleared.\u00a0 Start time arrived and it had clouded over completely so, following Duncan’s introduction to light pollution and the Northumberland International Dark Sky Park, I gave a presentation on practical stargazing for beginners.\u00a0 Duncan was keeping an eye on the weather and just as I finished the first section of my presentation the cloud cleared \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Everyone donned hats, coats and gloves and we moved the ‘scopes outside, as well as arming everyone with binoculars.\u00a0 The dazzling beauty of the Milky Way, Orion, the Pleiades, Gemini, Auriga, Taurus and the Andromeda Galaxy had everyone gripped by what can be seen when there’s little light pollution, and shooting stars were seen every couple of minutes.\u00a0 Delicious hot soup and bread rolls finished the evening off nicely and there were lots of questions about how to learn more about stargazing.\u00a0 We’ll hopefully be leading more events for the National Park during the winter; sign up and bring your enthusiasm and hat, gloves and plenty of warm clothing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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