FOAP will be offering two separate planetarium shows for the general public on Sunday, May 17th.
Tickets at https://events.ticketleap.com/events/friendsoftheplanetarium
1:30pm – The Accidental Astronauts
Duration: 32 minutes
Recommended for general audiences – especially elementary age children
During a school field trip Cy and Annie and their robo-dog Armstrong take an unexpected journey into space! Join them as they explore the Earth, Sun and Moon system with the help of the wise-cracking spaceship computer. See an asteroid crash into the Moon, and bounce along with our explorers on the lunar surface. Get up close and personal with a solar storm – and gain a new appreciation of our home planet.
There will be a short sky talk in the planetarium after the movie.
3:00pm – We Are Stars
Duration: 26 minutes
Recommended for general audiences
What are we made of? Where did all the mass in the universe come from?
Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins in this informative yet humorous film. Discover how the Big Bang, the stellar life cycle, and supernova explosions created the atoms that eventually became us!
There will be a short sky talk in the planetarium after the movie.