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April 2019 – Inspired by the Twin Dome

Left – The Neon sign on the roof of the old courthouse 2019. Right – H-alpha line in the desert. In 2019 the Shine project received an invite from the Las Cruces Space Festival to make new site-specific art for the…

31st November 2018 – Open Night

Left – Twin Dome interior art installation for Open Night Nov. 2018. Right – Detail of installation. On Saturday the 31st of November 2018 the interior of the Twin Dome was used as a public exhibition space for the…

27th November 2018 – Neon

Left – The Twin Dome and Neon emission spectrum. Right – Original drawings for the Twin Dome As it turned out The Shine Project continued with new interest and new opportunities beyond the end of the International Year…

2015 – 2017 First thoughts of the Twin Dome

Left – Tim Fitzpatrick, Bede Williams and Anne-Marie Weijmans. Right – Shine Project art installation “code for everything”. A seed of an idea for the Twin Dome Project, or at least the possibility of making use of the…

The beginning

From 1983 to 1992 the Twin Dome at the Observatory was the home of the Twin Photometric Telescope – two 40 cm telescopes on a mount, a telescope tailor-made for high-precision photometric monitoring with one telescope…