Posts for January, 2023

Join Cairngorms Astronomy Club and TGDT in The Square, Tomintoul for a moon viewing session.

We’ll have the Celestron telescope and a smartphone bracket that will allow you to take the moon home in your pocket!

Join Cairngorms Astronomy Group and Tomintoul & Glenlivet Development Trust for a night of stargazing at Inveraven Church & Pictish Stones. What did the Celts see in the night sky? Can these enigmatic monuments shed any light on Pictish astronomy? Come along to find out more.

This lightweight 3-day trek includes 2 high wild camps and a more leisurely way of summiting the UK’s next 5 highest mountains, all over 4000 feet, after Ben Nevis – Ben Macdui, Braeriach, Carn Toul, Angels Peak, and Cairn Gorm. Additionally there will be an option to summit the additional Munros of Devil’s Point and Carn a Mhaim. It will also give you plenty of time to fully absorb and appreciate the unique environments presented in the central Cairngorms.

All equipment and food is provided and included in the price.

Join Cairngorms Astronomy Group and Tomintoul & Glenlivet Development Trust for a night of stargazing at Inveraven Church & Pictish Stones. What did the Celts see in the night sky? Can these enigmatic monuments shed any light on Pictish astronomy? Come along to find out more.

Telescopes can be daunting if you’re just starting out and this workshop will help you to get to grips with your equipment. We’ll be using the hall and the porch to set up and learn all about different types of telescopes.

During this workshop we will focus on:

Using your telescope

Types of telescope

Observing deep sky objects

We encourage you to bring your own equipment, as our team will be on hand to help with all your telescope needs.

In a new series of richly entertaining, and free of charge, dramatised podcasts, Fire Works, award-winning Firebrand Theatre Company will take to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre Sound Stage to guide you on an audio journey through the life and work of the multi-talented novelist, poet, teacher and nature writer Nan Shepherd.

In three 30 minute podcasts, Nan Makes History, Nan In Love and Urban Nan, Firebrand will use Nan’s ground-breaking novels, letters and poems, along with entertaining dramatised scenes, to experience the unconventional author in all her natural and, at times lesser-known, habitats, while trying to explain the mystery of why her greatest work languished forgotten in a drawer for over thirty years.

Join us for a 2km trail run around the beautiful Abernethy Forest. Bring your own Santa Hat, wear some red and get into the Festive spirit.
Registration from 10am at Nethy Bridge Games Field.
Entry £5 (all proceeds will go to Abernethy Primary School PTA)
Primary aged School Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Please indicate on Facebook if your child is intending on coming to allow us to plan the correct number of medals!

Delighted to be bringing this wonderful Family Event Back!!
Join us at 6pm at Lynstock Crescent for Hot Chocolate and Mulled Hot Drinks. Piped off by a local piper we’ll depart at 7pm and create a river of light throughout the village.
Torches available to buy from 6pm for £5. Procession leaves Lynstock Crescent at 7pm.
Help us celebrate Hogmanay and enjoy an event for all ages.
All in aid of our incredible Abernethy Primary School!!

After our enforced 2-year absence the annual Christmas Eve procession is back with Santa and his reindeer and the Badenoch and Strathspey pipe band.

The procession leaves the fire station at 6pm and we will walk down to the Cairngorm Hotel for a sing song and fire works. Everyone is welcome to take part. Our theme this year is Chrismas movies. Come and join the Wizard of Oz, Shrek and Donkey and many more!

Join us for a festive family fun stargazing session. We will be meeting at the Discovery Centre at 6pm on the Thursday and Friday evening before Christmas. Come and enjoy a hot chocolate and a walk down to the Field of Hope to take in the night sky with our red light head torches. Santa hats, reindeer horns, and festive attire encouraged!