AstronomyNZ

Saving our Stars

Dark Sky Awareness has been a very successful feature of International Year of Astronomy 2009 in several countries. This workshop will look at approaches from the UK Dark Sky Discovery (UK DSD) programme and from New Zealand. It will be led by Dan Hillier from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh who leads UKDSD and also the Dark Sky Scotland programme on which it is based www.darkskyscotland.org.uk. It will be of special interest to astronomy and outdoor educators, teachers, communicators and tourism professionals.

1. Welcome

2. Why we are interested in Dark Skies?

3. UK Dark Sky overview

4. UK Dark Sky demonstration activity

5. Discussion - Q&A and exchange of ideas that could work in the UK

and NZ

6. Next steps

Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided for morning tea.

Please register interest of attending with John Field by e-mail at

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