Shows & Showtimes

Date	Event
09/06/10 10:00 AM	Museum closed for Labor Day
09/08/10 07:00 PM	Chesapeake Ramble Pre-Trip Meeting
09/09/10 10:30 AM	Read, Touch, and Discover
09/11/10 10:30 AM	Grands are Grand!
09/16/10 10:30 AM	Read, Touch, and Discover
09/16/10 03:30 PM	Coffee and Conversation
09/22/10 11:00 AM	8th Annual North Museum Golf Tournament
09/23/10 07:00 AM	Ramble to the Chesapeake Bay
09/23/10 10:30 AM	Read, Touch, and Discover
09/30/10 10:30 AM	Read, Touch, and Discover

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EXPERIENCE THE NEW NORTH MUSEUM PLANETARIUM!

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Planetarium upgrade provides a digital full dome video immersive experience

Get ready to explore the universe like never before as the North Museum Planetarium received a cosmic make-over. A new digital projector now splashes video across our entire 41-foot dome providing an immersive experience and propelling central Pennsylvania’s largest planetarium into the 21st century.

You’ll feel like you are soaring through the universe, visiting the planets, or running along with dinosaurs, with video completely surrounding you.

Our new High Definition system and high brightness projector, the first of its kind in the nation. The cutting-edge system was developed by ePlanetarium of Houston, Texas.

This new projector system dramatically improves our visitors’ experience. Not only are we be better able to visually show astronomical concepts, but we’ll be able to use the planetarium technology to venture into the other sciences.

We'll continue to use our star projector to provide its incredibly accurate depiction of the night sky for our live Night Sky Tour programs.

The $50,000 projector comes with a new sound system and shows. Two board members, Andrew H. Appel and Roger W. Sandt, are spearheading the fund drive to make this possible. Also leading the way are Lancaster Neuroscience and Spine Associates in honor of Dr. Dan Good, Caroline S. Nunan, and Dan and Karen Good.

Planetarium Programs & Showtimes

** Programs and show times are subject to change.

September 4 through December 31, 2010

Saturday & Sunday

11:00 am

(Saturday ONLY)

1:00 pm

(Sat & Sun)

One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure

Made possible by PNC Bank

and a North Museum member.

Join Sesame Street's Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet from the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street. Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the starry night sky of constellations and to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth.

One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure is a creation of Sesame Workshop, the Beijing Planetarium, Chicago's Adler Planetarium, and Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.

Recommended for ages 4 - 8

Approx.

25 minutes

2:00 pm

Earth's Wild Ride

Transport to the future, 2018, where humans now live on the moon. While looking back at Earth learn about a solar eclipse, the ice age, volcanoes, dinosaurs, and the differences between the earth and the moon. Experience Earth’s Wild Ride with our new sound system.

Please note: This program does have a lot of visual flyby motion.

Recommended for ages 7 & older

Approx.

20 minutes

3:00 pm

Night Sky Tour

Our planetarium staff will teach how to identify the stars, constellations, and planets of the current night sky, along with observing tips for upcoming celestial events. Packed with science facts, the sky will come alive and you'll really be able to identify constellations from your own backyard! Night Sky Tour program is different for each operator.

All Night Sky Tour programs include the current night sky but each operator also emphasizes on an additional topic of thier interest.

Kate ( Constellations & Mythology ) - September 4, 5, & 18

Stephen ( Planets ) - September 11, 12, 25, & 26

Kevin ( Planets ) - September 19

Recommended for ages 10 & older

30 - 40 minutes (dependant on operator)

Programs Coming Soon

** Programs and show times are subject to change.

Coming January 2011

12:00 pm

2:00 pm

Mars Interrupted

Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, the North Museum will soon be integrating live theater into our Planetarium programs. Our three-year involvement in the creation of the Science Theater Education Programming System (STEPS) will bring together live actors, digital characters, science, audience participation, and a high definition quality visuals in a museum setting.

Mars Interrupted is set in the future on a spacecraft on a mission to Mars. Two astronauts (live actors) and a computer with an attitude are thrown into crisis when they must struggle with the onboard computer for control of the spacecraft and the mission to search for life in our solar system.

For an overview of what STEPS is all about click HERE.

Produced by a collobaration of the North Museum, Space Science Institute, SETI Institute, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and seven other museums nationwide.

Recommended for late elementary to early middle school

Approx.

20 minutes