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Adults - £4.00

Children - £2.50

Concessions - £3.75

Students - £2.50

Family (2A+2C) - £12.00 (excluded from all discount deals)

Prices above are for Planetarium shows ONLY; all other events and shows are different.

Whats in the sky - November 2014

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Date 15-11-2013 20:11:24

So what is in the sky in November? Well this time of the year is my favorite time for observing, the nights are long an the skies are clear (unless its cloudy!) Planets Venus is visible just after sunset in the South-West, if the skies are clear you cannot miss it! It is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon Jupiter rises in the East around 21:00 (depending what time of the month) and is visible throughout the whole evening, try looking at Jupiter with a pair of binoculars and see if you can see the four of the its largest Moons. Watch them over the course of a couple of evenings

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Autumn and Winter Months

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Date 07-11-2013 10:11:46

Now the evenings have drown and this means you don't need to stay up until midnight to see what is going on up in the sky; why not get outside and observe the wonders of the night sky. If you can find a dark site away from the light pollute towns and cities; the Winter sky is in my opinion has some of the best objects to observe.  We still have some of the stars of the Summer, with the Summer Triangle towards the west and just after Sunset we have the bright planet Venus (most of you have seen it with out even knowing what it was you were looking at). Towards the south we have the large

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