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Stargazing Dinner at Tweed River House
Friday, 25 October 2024
Time: 6pm
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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
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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.