BLINK

Cincinnati is hosting BLINK, billed as the largest art and light event in the United States. Local coverage, including WLWT, has published an official guide covering installations, light projections, performances and logistics for attendees. The festival draws large crowds to the city's downtown and neighboring areas, turning streets and buildings into large-scale public art displays over several nights.

Covington, Kentucky will debut its new Entertainment Destination Center during the BLINK festival running October 8-11. The designation creates a pedestrian-friendly zone designed to support outdoor events, street activity, and local businesses in the city's entertainment district. Launching the center alongside BLINK, the region's large light-and-art festival, is intended to showcase the setup at a moment of heavy foot traffic.

Students from Northern Kentucky University have created an interactive art installation for BLINK, the Cincinnati region's large-scale light and art festival, developed through a partnership with TANK, the regional transit authority. The collaboration gives students hands-on experience in public art while adding a new work to the festival's lineup of illuminated displays across the Ohio River cities.

An amateur astronomer has published a new astrophotograph of NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, together with the open cluster M52 in Cassiopeia. The image was taken in HOO bicolor from 240 exposures of 60 seconds each in hydrogen-alpha and oxygen-III, using a SkyWatcher 254/1000 telescope, QHY163M camera and EQ6-R Pro mount with guiding. Astronomy communities are sharing the result as an example of what dedicated home equipment can capture.