Planetarium Programs

Constellations Tonight

The lore of the stars and other treasures of the sky comes to Earth in our Planetarium. Learn to identify the most prominent constellations of the season in the planetarium sky with a simple star map. Keep your map to help you find the constellations in the real nighttime sky.
Recommended for ages 6 and up.

How Big is the Universe?

One of the jobs of the Hubble Space Telescope is to see the most distant things in our Universe. But how do we tell how far away those things really are? Learn about various methods to determine astronomical distances as you hop on stepping stones to farther and farther places. We start in the planetarium and then blast off to the Moon, the Solar System, nearby stars, the Milky Way Galaxy, and beyond!
Recommended for ages 8 and up.

Journey by Starlight

Hundreds of years ago the Polynesians sailed their canoes thousands of miles between tiny islands in the vast Pacific Ocean. The wind, the waves, and the stars are your guides as we recreate an ocean journey from Hawaii to Tahiti and back with you in our planetarium. Can you navigate the way back home?
Recommended for ages 8 and up.

A Sky Full of Stars

What's that in the sky? We use our friendly Planetarium as a time machine to speed through a day, observing the sky from the Sun to the stars. Once night falls, the audience can stargaze at the Big Dipper, and imagine pictures in the stars. Then we can planet-hop within our Solar System to visit planets up close. What can you see in a sky full of stars?
Recommended for ages 4–8, with adult.