Hull Livestock Market - Monday 4 November 2013
The range of chalk hills that overlook the Vale of York are well known for their beauty by day, with ash woodlands and deep-cut valleys.
But at night they come into their own as one of the best spots to star gaze with the naked eye.
With unrivalled conditions due to a lack of light pollution and spectacular views, thousands of stars are visible from the dark skies above the Wolds without the use of a telescope.
This Saturday, 16 November, astronomer Martin Lunn will be holding a star gazing evening from The Robert Fuller Gallery – ideally located at the top of the Wolds with panoramic views as far as the North Yorkshire Moors to the north and the Yorkshire Dales to the west.
A former Curator of Astronomy at the Yorkshire Museum in York, Mr Lunn will be pointing out the Andromeda galaxy, the most distant object you can see with your eye at 2.2 million light years away, Jupiter and the constellations.
His talk, ‘A Ramble Through the Galaxy’, is due to be held under a full, or frost moon. “November’s full moon is known as the frost moon because it usually heralds the first frosts of the year,” he said.
Mr Lunn will also be talking about the latest news of the whereabouts of one of the brightest comets of all time, Comet ISON, and about York’s very own comet. Comet Pigott is the first comet to have been discovered by an Englishman and was first spotted in 1783 by York astronomer Edward Pigott.
`A Ramble Through the Galaxy’, is on Saturday November 16th at 7pm at The Robert Fuller Gallery, Fotherdale Farm, Thixendale. Tickets cost £9.50 and can be purchased online at www.robertefuller.com