Over the coming months, as schools start to get back to a new normality, I will be working alongside other members of the British Association of Planetaria, for the appropriate covid-safe practise, following the latest government guidelines. This ensures school staff, pupils and our operators stay safe and well as we start to visit you all once again.
Click here for news of our Covid-19 secure plans for future visits
Our full-dome fully immersive planetarium shows are personally designed to inspire, educate and entertain our visitors, especially children.
Encouraging children, especially girls, to take up STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) subjects is particularly dear to my heart. I am doing as much as I can to encourage this as my life’s goal.
Click here to read some testimonials about my visits.
The Planets: Our Neighbours in Space.
Take a fully-immersive tour of the planets in our solar system.
Learn how the Sun and all the planets were formed how different each one is and what the conditions on each planet are like. This show has been written in different formats to be used with different age groups and levels of ability. It is extremely popular with schools. As a result much of the content has been written to enhance and enrich the Earth & Space curriculum taught in children’s lessons at different key stages in their education.
A Tour Around the Night Sky
Learn about the stars seen during different parts of the year and some of the magnificent objects we can view through binoculars or a small telescope.
In Spring, we have The Realm of Galaxies on display as we are looking out of our own Milky Way and seeing out to more distant galaxies each of which contains a colossal black hole.
During Summer we have the bright Milky Way stretching across the sky which is scattered with many bright star clusters and glowing clouds of gas. The Summer Triangle of stars guides us around this lovely area of sky.
Autumn sees the darkening sights, with Andromeda and Pegasus riding high up in our skies.
Winter sees the return of cold, dark nights. At this time of year we see the bright winter constellations of Taurus and Orion with their fantastic star clusters and clouds of bright glowing hydrogen gas.
These are sights which are well worth braving the cold for.
But you don’t need to as we bring you them all to you in the warmth of our planetarium.
The Moon: Our Nearest Neighbour.
This show which has been written specially for a younger audience tells the story of our Moon.
Find out how the Moon was born, how “The Man in The Moon” was made and how other moons, planets are kept in their round shapes and in orbits around The Sun.
Magnificent Destination. The Apollo 11 Story.
This fully immersive planetarium show tells all about what it took to get Eagle, The Apollo 11 lunar module onto the surface of the Moon on July 21st 1969. Be transported to The Sea of Tranquillity to witness, almost first-hand Neil and Buzz landing on the surface with under 20 seconds of landing fuel left in the tank.
Saving Apollo 13.
Retelling the story of the Apollo 13 mission when an oxygen tank over-pressurised and burst 200,000 miles from Earth.
Join the 3 astronauts on their hazardous and uncomfortable journey around The Moon using the Lunar Module called Aquarius as a life-raft to drag the crippled Command and Service Module Odyssey back safely to Earth.
The James Webb Space Telescope.
Using fully immersive full-dome planetarium footage, find out all about The Webb Space Telescope.
What it is, what it will look for and what it is likely to find out and tell us about our wonderful universe once it is launched in 2021.
—————————–
As well as our audience-interactive shows above Star-Gazing is also licensed to show a number of Full-Dome planetarium movies:
Capcom Go!
Created by NSC Creative, this stunning fully-immersive movie bring the tells the story of the Apollo Missions, bringing all the excitement of the historic Moon landings to life. It transports the audience into the spacecraft and onto the surface of The Moon. Inside the dome you will really experience the historic landing of Apollo 11’s lunar module called Eagle onto the surface of The Sea of Tranquillity on the 20th of July 1969 and take a ride very bumpy ride on the Lunar Rover.
The Planets 360.
The Planets 360 is a re-imagining of British composer Gustav Holst’s The Planets orchestral suite. It uses the awe-inspiring Full dome format to create a sonically driven and immersive experience. The show fuses art, music and science into a 360° spectacle. Created by NSC Creative there are two versions to enjoy. The classical version, showing views of the planets and universe, and a modern edition sporting a contemporary soundtrack and a more abstract and surreal journey through the cosmos.
We Are Aliens.
Narrated by Rupert Grint, this full-dome movie looks at our place in the universe and what the chances are of finding other forms of life on other planets out in our universe. Be completely transported in both space and time as well as educated with this fantastic NSC Creative film.
Cell! Cell! Cell!
Explore the human body in this NSC Creative film. Join Raj & Sooki and get shrunk down to a tiny size which will enable us to explore the body from inside. We’ll move around various organs and look at our cells in close up to see just how amazing our bodies really are and how it all works.
