Guest post by Aleks Scholz, Observatory Director In the summer of 2013, when I started my job at the observatory, the Twin Dome was embedded in an SEP field. In the words of Douglas Adams, an SEP field “relies on…
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…
The last action for the 2024 season was the cutting back of the wild meadow and gathering seeds for replanting in the Spring. The pictures at the top of the blog are by Julie McDonald, conservation worker with the…
The Twin Dome events programme for 2024 has now wrapped up with Beyond the Horizon. It seems an excellent place to pause, leaving open the opportunity to maybe finish beyond the horizon next year. Looking back it’s…
We opened the Twin Dome for Beyond the Horizon at the weekend (just gone) and got our best audience numbers for a Twin Dome event so far. I think that more and more folk are starting to pick up that there’s a new space…
The new exhibition Beyond the Horizon – in collaboration with the Royal Society of Edinburgh – is now all ready for the opening tomorrow. Maybe 99 % anyway. There’s been a steady progression of activity inside the Twin…
When I first encountered the Twin Dome nearly 10 years ago, the general appearance of the exterior was very much one of a forgotten and somewhat neglected building. The painting of the neon spectrum in 2018 shifted the…
For the start of August I’m now straight into building the next installation of “Beyond the Horizon” which is to be a new collaboration with the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This will be where I finally get to use a…