September is Celebrate Museums Month
This September marks the fourth year Hawai`i Island institutions s are collaborating to open their doors to other institutions' members for Free! Contact the individual Museums for more information.
Friday Extended Hours Ends August 27
‘Imiloa Astronomy Center reminds the community that the Center returned to regular operational hours on Fridays, from 9am to 4pm. August 27 was the last night of the Friday night extended operational hours, ending a summer run of evening planetarium shows and exhibit hall experiences.
`Imiloa After School Program starts the 2010-11 school year
Students See Science Everywhere!
Weekly program inspires interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
Hilo, Hawai‘i – Students who snooze in class will soon get a wakeup call. ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center’s Science Rocks! afterschool program puts physics, chemistry, engineering and technology concepts within reach. Students in grades 4, 5 and 6 will be challenged to see science in their everyday lives – from the wonders of flight to the shocking details of electricity.
3D Thursday Nights back for a limited run
The Milky Way in 3D
Take a 3D Journey through our Cosmic Address
Hilo, Hawai‘i – ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center brings back its popular Thursday evening program “A 3D Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe,” this time focusing on the Milky Way Galaxy: Exploring our Cosmic Address, for a six-week run starting August 5, 2010. The live planetarium program, hosted by Shawn Laatsch, ‘Imiloa planetarium manager, uses the 3D stereoscopic projection capability in the ‘Imiloa planetarium to “fly” participants out into space on a unique and engaging tour of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
Playing Avatar in the 3D Planetarium?
Unfortunately it is NOT possible for us to show standard movies or 3D movies in the planetarium.
Our planetarium system is configured for multi-channel hemispherical projection, and any content we show must be specially produced for this format. Our system's 3D stereoscopic projection capabilities use a spectrally notched set of eyeglasses to produce the 3D effect with the left and right channels of our Sony projectors.
Flat screen movies are a single channel and have a standard rectangular format and the 3D ones are produced for use with polarizing glasses, which are also different than the type of glasses used in our planetarium. Lastly the licensing fees for standard movies (ones at the box office) are well beyond the reach of museum/science centers.