We've had some time away from the residency working on other projects, but are now back and working on pulling our research, interests and ideas together.

We are working in collaboration with the Wigtown Book Festival 28th Sept - 9th October www.wigtownbookfestival.com to put on the City Dark as a Drive in Movie and to showcase some of our new work. The book festival has many talks and events relating to Dark Skies as part of it's programme this year. We're also hoping to screen the City Dark as part of the Film Festival in November.

We're working on a new website which will detail our work relating to the residency and when and where you can find it. We'll post details as soon as its live.

On a more global note, the image below is the surface of Mars where the new Rover 'Curiosity ' will be landing on Monday. Check out www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html for more information on the mission and what Curiosity will be doing over the next 2 years.

More locally, Steve Owens the Dark Skies Development Officer, has visited the new observatory at Dallmelington that we posted about earlier in the year. You can find more about it on his blog darkskydiary.wordpress.com/author/sadbagger and a recent image is below. Its looking good.