Join me in Lochbroom on November 21st for an evening of Stargazing and Astronomy in support of the Wester Ross Dark Skies Festival.

We’ll be beneath some of the darkest skies in Scotland, exploring constellations, planets, and deep-sky objects. Even if the clouds roll in, I’ll present an illustrated talk indoors with Planetarium software.

Friday 21st Nov, 8pm at Clachan Church, Lochbroom. Tickets £6 on the door (under 16s free). Wrap up warm!

For advance booking please email Louise at louise@wrb.scot

We had a fantastic starry night up at Abriachan Forest with our guest speaker Andrew Allan from Scotland’s Night Sky .

After some naked eye stargazing we headed inside for Andrew’s excellent talk on photographing and filming the night sky. Andrew’s night sky content is truly unique and mesmerising and testament to his technical skills, patience and enthusiasm for the night sky.

After the talk we were blessed with more clear skies and headed out for another tour of the planets and constellations (expertly captured by Allan’s Sony camera).

Look out for our March Moon event going up shortly (see check my Facebook Page Highland Astronomy for details).

Here’s a small snippet of our naked eye stargazing session from Abriachan Forest on Saturday evening, with Andrew and I pointing out some bright planets and constellations.

Props to Andrew for managing to capture this low light footage with his camera setup.

I hope you enjoy my short livestream of the Orion nebula – the closest region of massive star formation to our Sun. Roughly 1,300 light years away in the sword of the constellation Orion, the nebula is visible naked eye or in binoculars or telescope.

This live stream was originally streamed from my Facebook page and later archived on my YouTube channel. The stream was filmed using a 200mm telescope and 32mm eyepiece.