Exmoor Dark Skies in Devon & Somerset this October

Exmoor Dark Skies in Devon & Somerset this October

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Exmoor Dark Skies Festival: Exmoor National Park will host Exmoor Dark Skies Festival, giving people the chance to learn more secrets about the sky. This year (2017), the festival will be hosted in Devon and Somerset from 19th October to 29th October. The festival includes star-gazing evenings, specialist talks, guided night walks, rocket workshops, space film shows, bat talks, and astro-photography exhibitions. This will give the public a chance to explore and enjoy one of the largest mobile planetariums in the world.

Exmoor Dark Sky
Image credits to Visit North Devon Twitter

The Exmoor Dark Sky Festival is celebrated every year on Exmoor, reflecting the International Dark Sky Reserve status here. Exmoor National Park is the first place in Europe to get International Dark Sky Reserve status.

Exmoor Dark Sky Festival

Here is a quick video about Exmoor National Park declared as the first Dark Sky reserve in the world,