Come on a tour of the dark sky in the lovely setting of the Creake Abbey grounds. You will be shown by expert astronomer Paul Fellows how to navigate the constellations and learn to recognise the principle stars, planets and other objects which can be found, and then enable you to observe them using a number of different telescopes.

Following supper Paul will give a presentation entitled ‘Fire and Ice – The Volcanic Worlds of the Solar System’ looking at how volcanoes have been critical in shaping the various rocky and icy worlds of solar system from Earth, all the way from Pluto and how these processes may be indicators to the possibility of life in some apparently unlikely places. If stargazing outside is not possible due to the weather, it will be replaced with an indoor screen so that Paul can take you on a virtual tour.

Paul Fellows is chair of the Cambridge Astronomical Association and presenter of the public open nights at the Cambridge University Institute of Astronomy. In 2005 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. The images above and all the images in Paul’s presentation are his own, taken from his back-garden observatory.