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Tweed River House are very excited to announce the launch of Byron Bay Stargazing with our second pop-up event Stargazing Dinner Experience
at Tweed River House.
A wonderful opportunity to explore the North Coast’s dark skies and its celestial wonders, whilst delighting in fine dining with spectacular views. Experience an out-of-this-world journey to space led by Astrophysicist and TedX speaker Dimitri.
You will enjoy a 3 course long table dinner on the River Verandah and a Stargazing experience with an astrophysicist including naked-eye astronomy, laser-guided constellation storytelling, and state-of-the-art telescope viewing of the Moon, planets and deep sky objects.
Tweed River House, awarded a hat in the 2024 Australian Good Food Guide Awards, is located in Murwillumbah in the Northern Rivers. It is a magnificently restored century-old grand river house, where you can dine enjoying spectacular panoramic views from the river terrace or inside under the elegant, pressed tin ceilings.
131 river street, South Murwillumbah, NSW 

Book your seat HERE

Cost $175pp includes 3 course dinner and stargazing experience and talk.


Your host is Dimitri Douchin PhD, a French-Australian astronomer who has a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics. Boasting 10 years of experience as a guide in Lake Tekapo (NZ), Macquarie University Observatory, Emirates One & Only Wolgan Valley, and Sydney Observatory, Dimitri - together with his fiancee Caroline - is the co-founder of the award-winning Blue Mountains Stargazing and Jervis Bay Stargazing. Dimitri is also working in research at Western Sydney University as a cultural astronomer, collaborating with local Aboriginal communities to recover any archaeological and astronomical heritage in the mountains. He is the Co-Founder of the Blue Mountains Dark Sky Initiative. He gave his first Ted Talk in 2023 about the awe of stargazing.