Dark Skies

Establishing Gallan Head as a Dark Skies destination and gaining Dark Skies status is part of the Trust's development plan aspirations with an Observatory for stargazing and sea gazing called the CETUS project included in the initial community development plan.

Over the past year, Donny Mackay and Angus Morrison of the Stornoway Astronomical Society have been working with the Gallan Head Community Trust helping design and plan the new Cetus Observatory. During his visit, next month, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor John Brown, who is patron of the Cetus Project, will meet with Donny, Angus and the Trust to finalise the plans for the new development.

As part of the developing Dark Skies project, a meeting was held with Lanntair personnel led by Andrew Eaton Lewis to include Gallan Head as a venue for the planned Hebridean Dark Skies Festival. A program of Festival events was being formulated for 2019 and 2 events were to be held at Gallan Head in February 2019.