In the last week of October the colour and sheer variety of plants in the wildflower beds in front of the Twin Dome still seems to be evolving and thriving well into Autumn. The central image in the above collage is…
View Post A few years ago – in fact before all of our plans and routines were turned upside down by the pandemic – we would have two Open Nights per year for the public to come and explore the observatory and its…
Around about this time last year we were suddenly asked to vacate the Twin Dome – another story for another day – and something was under construction which then unexpectedly needed to be left in cold storage and…
It looks like we’ll finally be getting some reasonable May sunshine and warmth later this week. So I’m going to start keeping a close watch on the three wildflower beds to the front of the Twin Dome. This year we have…
We’ll be taking to the road (not far) with the Twin Dome tomorrow (18th May) as we join in the UK-wide fun known as “Pint of Science”. My long-time collaborator of Anne-Marie Weijmans has needed to pull out with a last…
Open Night at the observatory this year was on Saturday the 14th of March and, like last year, we got lucky again with some clear skies. There was a good deal of time spent with a fantastically clear sight of Jupiter –…
There has been something of a hiatus on this page (I’ve been busy delving into the past). So apologies for the significant period of being awol but I’m back now. The history of the Twin Dome has been something that…
This year’s Observatory Open Night on the 15th of March was about as good as we could hope for. Top of the wish list was that we had clear skies and I don’t remember clear skies on any Open Night during the last 5…
Just over a week to Open Night and I’m feeling reasonably confident that my planning for the Twin Dome is coming together pretty much as hoped. What was an earlier installation (2024) called Beyond the Horizon has now…
Three weeks to go until Open Night and the transition of Beyond the Horizon from daylight to night is taking shape As with the last two Open Nights the challenge has been to re-work an existing installation into one…