Nighttime is critical to the ecology and culture of every place on earth, and its accelerating loss is one of the most overlooked conservation challenges of our time.
When you qualify as an Astro-guide, you will become skilled in extending tourism experiences into the night hours and how to connect your guests to a localised and layered relationship with natural darkness. By linking biodiversity, culture and astronomy into an integrated narrative, this course will teach you how to open viewpoints into the night as an environment. Noctura trains guides to interpret the night responsibly, working to extend wilderness engagements and conservation awareness into the hours after dark.
Understanding practical astronomy through location-specific latitudes and night skies.
Learning hands-on celestial navigation, storytelling and guest engagement.
Connecting celestial knowledge with conservation and cultural meaning.
Equatorial celestial navigation and practical stargazing.
Knowledge of nocturnal habitats and the effects of natural and artificial light.
Local cosmologies and ways of interpreting the night.