Planetarium Programs
Planetarium Programs are included with admission.
321…Lift Off
10:00 a.m.
Saturday & Sunday ONLY
Elon is a hamster scientist who lives in a dump yard. He tries to fit in with the local rats’ community but nobody takes him seriously. The rats aren’t interested in his scientific experiments which often fail in practice. One day Elon hears a crash. In his garden he finds a crater and a damaged robot inside. How did he get here? Elon fixes the robot and finds out that he fell from a spaceship which is going to prepare Mars for colonization. But the ship leaves in three days. And that’s how Elon’s great adventure starts. Will he manage to get the robot back to his ship before it leaves with all the robot’s friends?
3-2-1 Liftoff! Is an adventurous animated fulldome film about courage and wits you need to have to get in space and back.
One Sky Project
11:00 a.m.
Tuesday-Sunday
One Sky Project is an international collaboration focused on increasing understanding about cultural and indigenous astronomy, its historical and modern applications, and how our One Sky connects us all.
Enjoy stories, presented in a series of short films, about the night sky from Hawaiʻi and cultures across the globe.
Films
The Samurai and the Stars (Japan)
The Forge of Artemis (Greece)
Thunderbird (Navajo)
Celestial Canoe (Canada)
Hawaiian Wayfinders (Hawaiʻi)
Cosmic Perspectives
12:00 p.m.
Tuesday-Sunday
We know that space is big. But just how big? Where do we, explorers fit in with the scale of the universe.
Journey through the vastness of the universe with an ‘Imiloa astronomer as your guide in this live interactive planetarium program.
Learn how the the observatories on Maunakea have contributed to our knowledge of our place amongst the stars!
Fragile Planet
1:00 p.m.
Tuesday-Sunday
Travel 120 million light years to rediscover home!
Earth, our only known haven for life, inhabits a special place in the cosmos. Sigourney Weaver guides us on an immersive excursion that will inspire a new perspective on our home world.
After a close-up look at Earth, we visit planets and moons in our solar system in search of hideouts for life, and then venture outward to exo-planets and beyond.
This visually intense program uses the latest visualization techniques to weave together observed data, including high resolution satellite and spacecraft imagery, terrain maps, and pinpoint positioning of stars, exoplanets and galaxies.
Natural Selection
3:00 p.m.
Tuesday-Sunday
Join the young Charles Darwin on an adventurous voyage of exploration circumnavigating the World on the HMS Beagle. In Victorian times many physical phenomena were already discovered and described by natural laws, but life’s most eloquent mechanism was still unknown: How could new species arise to replace those lost in extinction? It was time for someone to come forth with a Naturalist explanation of this Mystery of Mysteries. Allow Darwin himself to reveal this simple and most beautiful mechanism that explains the evolution of all life on Earth: Natural Selection.