About us
Dark Sky Scotland is a partnership led by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh Visitor Centre.
Our steering group includes representatives of the partners and also the research and amateur astronomy communities in Scotland.
We aim to
• inspire the public, pupils, teachers and parents through dark skies
and astronomy;
• encourage and sustain positive attitudes toward science and technology
subjects and careers;
• support the development of dark sky tourism, recreation and dark sky parks
and sites.
• develop the network of people able to run future astronomy outreach activities;
• create long-lasting partnerships between organisations that will support
future activities.
Since 2006 we have been project funded to run programmes in both rural and urban Scotland Our main funders and partners have been:
We have also recieved funding from The Blackford Trust
Here is a case study [1.47Mb PDF] of our programmes since 2006.