Moor up on your Canal Boat Holiday miles away from any street or artificial lighting to enjoy the night sky in all it's glory.

Look up to the heavens and on a clear night you will be able to see a slight haze which is in fact the billions of stars that make up the Milky Way.

The North Star and the brightest in the sky has been used by sailors for navigation for thousands of years.

The moon will appear as a different shape every night as it goes through it's different phases or cycles from full to crescent.

There are eight phases of the moon and it can be either waxing or waning and it takes about 29.

5 days to complete a cycle.

Over the next few nights the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis may be spotted over some parts of the UK.

The Aurora Borealis are a natural light display normally seen over polar regions and are named after Aurora the Roman goddess of dawn and Boreas the Greek name for the North wind.

This rare phenomenon may occur over Britain because the Sun that has produced powerful solar storms.

These aren't like the storms we see on earth these send out huge explosions that shoot out into space and when they reach our planet they light up the sky.

The Northern Lights appear in lots of different colours and can be anything from red to green or even rare blue.