Welcome to our Bayfordbury Night! This is your ticket for this evening
Science Learning Centre (main building – activities upstairs)
18:15 “What Astronomers Do in Practice” by Raquel Chicarro
19:00 “Night Light or Night Blight” by Bob Mizon
19:45 “Google an Astronomer” with Dr. Mark Gallaway and David Campbell
20:30 “Night Light or Night Blight” by Bob Mizon
21:15 “Asteroid Astronomy” by James Falder
- Special Pin-hole Camera / Solargraph Workshop (recommended for kids, 5 people every 10min)
- Planetarium Shows (every ~20min starting at 18:10 upstairs and at 18:20 downstairs)
- Lab Activities – Meteorite stall, “Shooting star” detector, Time Snail, IR camera and much more…
- Computer Lab: Galaxy Zoo, Moon Zoo, Solarstorm Watch, Planet and Ice Hunters!
- Café, food & refreshments.
Observatory (outside -- follow map on the back )
It’s a 5 minutes walk to the telescopes. Please stay on the illuminated path!!!
The main telescopes are pointing as follows:
Mars
Jupiter & Saturn
M1 - Crab Nebula
M42 - Orion
M45 – the Pleiades
M81 – Spiral Galaxy
M82 - Cigar Galaxy
Marsh Telescope
14 inch
New Meade
Video Imaging Telescope
Ian Nicolson Telescope
Kitchin Telescope
Meade
Patrick Moore building (rotunda building): Radio Telescope Show (every 20min)
Any comments please email [email protected] , bookings for future events at
http://bayfordbury.stca.herts.ac.uk , and we are now on facebook (look for Bayfordbury Observatory)!
Stay on the road, and keep clear of the moors…