Community Observatory St Martins on Scilly. Amateur astronomers on a small rock in the Atlantic, building an observatory. Sparkly skies and seas.
St Martin's, Isles of Scilly
Joined June 2017
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Thank you to our speakers, weekly delegates and to everyone who took part in Scilly Dark Skies Week (in person or online), for making it such a huge success. Yesterday, we opened the solar can that has been on the roof of the warm room for the past year tracking the sun.
Our final talk of the week is 'Hubble's Heritage and the James Webb telescope'. Learn how this incredible telescope will change our view of the Universe. Talk 7.30 on St Martin's and being live streamed. @visitIOS @IOSTravel #IslesOfScilly #JamesWebbTelescope #DarkSkies
Tickets for Scilly Dark Skies Week 2022 are still on sale, £175 for a week of walks, talks, workshops and star gazing under some of the darkest skies in England. Here's feedback from one of last year's delegates.
#DarkSkies #Astromony #Astrophotography #IslesOfScilly
Weekly tickets for this year's Scilly Dark Skies Week are now on sale. For more details email [email protected]. Workshops talks and star gazing from our community observatory on St Martin's under some of the darkest skies in the UK. @visitIOS @IOSTravel #IslesOfScilly
The fabulous Ian Morison will be giving a talk at the Island Hall on St Martin's on Tuesday 21st. All welcome, hope to see you there! @visitIOS @IOSTravel #IslesOfScilly #StMartins #Astronomy
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Scilly Dark Skies is finally taking place, the culmination of many years work, to produce a truly wonderful facility, which both through the event itself and into the future, will allow visitors to the Islands to better appreciate and explore the wonderful skies above St Martins.
"Scilly Dark Skies Week will give me a chance to do some imaging under some of the darkest skies in the UK. I'm looking forward to sharing some useful advice as to their choice of telescopes and how to begin taking images of the night sky."
Prof Ian Morison @visitIOS
Huge turnout for our June astronomy talk on black holes by Ian Morison FRSA! #astronomy #scilly
