Armagh Planetarium
| County: | Co. Armagh |
| Tel: | 028-3752 3689 |
| Fax: | 028-3752 6187 |
| Email: | info@armaghplanet.com |
The Planetarium offers a unique visitor or corporate experience in Ireland. The newly refurbished Digital Theatre recreates stunning visualisations of the night sky. Armagh Planetarium is the only site in the UK and Ireland where visitors can experience the fantastic new Digistar4 360 degree immersive projection system, which can take you to other worlds.
The Planetarium features extensive exhibits highlighting the exploration of space and how this is helping us better understand our own place in the cosmos. Staff run live activities for visitors of all ages, including the ever-popular build and launch your own rocket workshop. Visitors can stroll through the landscaped Astropark, a scale model of the universe.
General Information
| Address: | College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DB |
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| Telephone; | 028-3752 3689 |
| Fax: | 028-3752 6187 |
| Email: | info@armaghplanet.com |
| Website: | http://www.armaghplanet.com |
| Location: | Armagh City |
| Season: | All Year |
| Open Times: | Core Opening times: Monday-Saturday all year. For additional opening times, please call/see website |
| Tours: | Self Guiding. Max no. 90, Duration 1-2 Hours, Languages: English. Guide available on request |
| Booking Contact: | Eamon Rafferty |
| Manager: | Dr. Tom Mason |
| Average Visit Length: | 2 Hours |
| Entrance Fees: | Adult: Stg£6.00 / Child: Stg£5.00 Family: Stg£18.00 / Educational and group rates available |
| Audio Visual: | Seating: 93, Duration: 40 minutes, Languages: English |
| Restaurant: | Voyager Café (seats 40) |
| Picnic Area: | Yes |
| Shop: | Souvenirs, Educational Resource Material. Mail Order facility available |
| Information Guide: | English |
| Coach Parking: | Yes |
| Group Booking Necessary: | Yes |
| Car Parking: | Yes |
| Disabled Access/Parking: | Yes |
Join Armagh Planetarium Online!
Here at Armagh Planetarium we’ve decided that this interweb thingie isn’t just a passing fad but might be here to stay. So if it is, we may as well embrace it. Accordingly, we have launched our own Twitter feed and blog. The Astronotes blog will be updated a couple of times a week at least and will offer insights into what is happening here in Armagh and in the rest of the Universe, you can read it at: http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/!
Our Twitter feed will send subscribers nuggets of astronomical goodness several times a day. There will be links to breaking space news, titbits on local events and cool stuff scoured from the most distant depths of the world wide web. I’m sure you will find it useful. You can join us at: www.twitter.com/armaghplanet
Don’t forget that there is a lot to see and do at our main site www.armaghplanet.com. To keep up-to-date with events at the Planetarium over the next twelve months please visit our new Upcoming Events page at www.armaghplanet.com/events and do check out our educational videos at: www.teachertube.com!
Aurora Theatre Show
Experience the Aurora – New Show Coming January 2012
Over seven months in the Arctic Circle, Terence Murtagh, former Director of Armagh Planetarium, captured timelapse images of the Aurora Borealis with high resolution digital SLR cameras outfitted with fisheye lenses. The results are spectacular. For the first time
the aurora has been captured as it was meant to be experienced, as a display that covers the entire sky. This immersive show shares the science behind the aurora and tells the story of his quest to find and photograph the aurora for wraparound display in fulldome theaters.
Astronomy
Astronomy Gallery: If you have any astrophotographs that you would like to submit to our gallery please email them to us. Remember to give us details of the equipment that was used to produce the image, as well as location and exposure times if known. Visit astronomy
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Every Saturday at 11am
Space is a facinating topic, and at Armagh Planetarium we aim to educate all age groups. The very young find the concept both facinating and intersting and as such we have specially developed and produced a brand new show called "The Little Yellow Star" for our younger audiences. Our new show is aimed at children aged under 5. Join the Little Yellow Star on his adventure in the night sky, meeting many of the wonderful animals who make up the star patterns and join in with the sing-along.
This is a free show designed to introduce pre-school children to the stars and constellations in a fun way.
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