About NOVA
Stargazing Experiences For Every Occasion
Stargazing Experiences For Every Occasion
Stargazing Experiences For Every Occasion
Book a guided stargazing tour for any occasion:
Date nights / star parties / family stargazing / group bookings / valentines day / birthdays / Getting together with friends / Christmas / Weddings / Father's day & Mother's day / (School events) / (Corporate events) / (Public events) / relax & unwind.
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Book a guided stargazing tour for any occasion:
Date nights / star parties / family stargazing / group bookings / valentines day / birthdays / Getting together with friends / Christmas / Weddings / Father's day & Mother's day / (School events) / (Corporate events) / (Public events) / relax & unwind.
Gift a stargazing experience - click here
Our ethos is that you'll have more fun & enjoyment stargazing with one of our astronomers by your side than simply using a telescope by yourself.
Why?
We invest in high quality, powerful, large aperture telescopes with specialist equipment and will provide you with a NOVA astronomer as your tour guide. They will lead you through the night sky, energise your curiosity and show you the true night sky wonders that are hidden in plain sight. This means spending less time searching for celestial objects and more time observing them. Our experts will explain in a really understandable way, what you are observing, its origins and evolution, as well as giving you the best techniques for optimal observing.
Stargazing Closer To Home
Stargazing Experiences For Every Occasion
Stargazing Experiences For Every Occasion
We can travel to any location and run your stargazing experience, whether from your back garden (if suitable), or a location that is close to your home if not.
Included in the price is travel within zone A (20 miles from Stratford-Upon-Avon). We require additional fuel to be covered beyond this zone. To find out more about different zones,
We can travel to any location and run your stargazing experience, whether from your back garden (if suitable), or a location that is close to your home if not.
Included in the price is travel within zone A (20 miles from Stratford-Upon-Avon). We require additional fuel to be covered beyond this zone. To find out more about different zones, click the button below.
It may be more convenient for us to travel to you in order to fit around your busy life. You may also find a NOVA stargazing experience more economical and budget friendly compared with some other experiences, where travel, hotel, fuel, the price is per person amongst other things may need to be considered.
We highly recommend booking onto other astronomy experiences as many are incredible in various locations, but we appreciate it may mean a larger cost, so our aim is to give you a fair price that's also convenient.
Stargazing For All Knowledge Levels
Stargazing Experiences For Every Occasion
Stargazing For All Knowledge Levels
We adapt our experiences, so whether it's astronomy for beginners, or advanced astronomy we can help. Our aim is to energise your curiosity and enthusiasm around space, astronomy, the night sky and stargazing by giving you the best visual experience of celestial sights coupled with an understanding about what you are seeing through the te
We adapt our experiences, so whether it's astronomy for beginners, or advanced astronomy we can help. Our aim is to energise your curiosity and enthusiasm around space, astronomy, the night sky and stargazing by giving you the best visual experience of celestial sights coupled with an understanding about what you are seeing through the telescope.
Have you seen the Moon? What about the planets? Or how about those mind-blowing deep sky objects like nebulae, star clusters or galaxies? These are hidden from smaller telescopes/binoculars and certainly from the naked eye and most people have never seen them.
Whatever your reason for stargazing come and see it with your own eyes on a night of visual astronomy.
Our origins
Behind NOVA
Aspiring Astronomer and Astrophysicist Jordan Mansfield has always been curious about the Universe and our place in it. During one of the many lockdowns in 2020 and after watching the series 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey' hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, he found himself inspired to begin learning all about how the Universe works.
"It was the stories of other Astronomers, who throughout the ages had made incredible discoveries that gave me a real drive to learn more, and with it, a yearning to explore the night sky for myself, aided by a telescope."
The following year he purchased his first telescope (with the help from his family) and began his journey into the world of visual astronomy, spending as many clear nights as he could out under the stars.
"From the first time I peered through a telescope and saw the bright glow of Jupiter, I could see it's cloud belts and I saw the same moons that Galileo had first observed some 400 years earlier, I was blown away.
It was in this moment I knew my journey of wonder and learning had truly just begun".
NOVA's Birth
During those clear nights Jordan always found himself in awe of what he had seen and would spend the following weeks learning more about the objects he had observed and about astronomy in general.
"I began to share what I had learnt through visual astronomy, firstly with family and friends who had helped me to begin with."
After seeing their eyes light up, the smiles on their faces and the wonderment it left them in from what they had seen that evening, he wanted to share his passion for the Universe and those experiences on a larger scale with anyone and everyone and so came the birth of NOVA - Night of Visual Astronomy and the investment began into more powerful telescopes.
"I wanted to give people a true astronomy experience by showing them the wonders the Universe through a telescope, so they could see it with their own eyes. I hope it inspires many people into looking up more often and to discover the wonders of our Universe for themselves through learning. This will make me a very happy man."
