Training Workshops
What?
Dark Sky Scotland's training sessions mainly focus on observing activities, increasing your knowledge, broadening your resources and boosting your confidence when it comes to adding stargazing to topics on space, ideas for your group, or satisfying personal curiosity.
We create the progamme to answer questions such as "What can you see in the night sky?", "How do you find out what's good to look for on any particular night?" and "How do you run an observing session?" We cover using robotic telescopes and free online resources too, and can tweak our content to cover any specific observing-related topics you want to find out more about. A typical workshop would last about 90 minutes, excluding any stargazing.
Where & When
We will be running two training sessions at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh during 2012, one in April on the 25th, after the school Easter holidays to have plenty of time for you to plan activities for later in the year, and one in October to launch you into the winter 2012/2013 observing season. These have a maximum capacity of 30 attendees, on a first-booked, first-served basis.
However, if you have 10 or more people who can get together elsewhere in Scotland, we can come and run a training session in your local area on any suitable date. These can run at any time of the year - while summertime stargazing is not really a great option, a session during the warmer half of the year gives you plenty of time to prepare for the long dark nights of winter. Training sessions in your local area cost a flat rate of £100 regardless of where in Scotland we go.
So what's next?
For more information, to book in for one of the Edinburgh sessions or to enquire about your own training session, please contact us via info@darkskyscotland.org.uk.