Dec 01, 2024 06:14 PM IST
World’s first tilted LED dome planetarium to open in Mysuru in Sept 2025
Guwahati, The world’s first-ever tilted dome LED planetarium is taking form in Mysuru and can provide guests an immersive expertise of the night time sky as soon as it opens in September 2025.
World’s first tilted LED dome planetarium to open in Mysuru in Sept 2025
The ₹91-crore undertaking is being constructed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the College of Mysore at its Chamundi Hills campus.
“Unlike a conventional projector-based fulldome system widely used in planetaria, the LED dome system produces images using LED elements that emit light on an immense colour spectrum,” IIAp Director Annapurni Subramanian informed PTI on the sidelines of the India Worldwide Science Competition right here.
Subramanian stated the planetarium will comprise a 15-metre diameter dome tilted at an angle of 15 levels which is able to enable customers to view the night time sky proper in entrance of them as a substitute of sitting in reclining chairs and craning their necks.
Characterised by its increased luminance and wider color gamut, the LED dome system can reproduce extremely lifelike stunning starry skies and astronomy visuals, she stated, including that the 8K LED lights are managed by SkyExplorer astronomical software program of French agency RSA Cosmos.
“The construction and the work of building the planetarium on site is progressing rapidly and we hope to inaugurate the planetarium by September next year,” Subramanian stated.
RSA Cosmos was awarded the contract to construct the LED dome planetarium by the IIAp and the set up shall be carried out by Orbit Animate Pvt. Ltd., the Indian subsidiary of the French agency.
The Cosmology Training and Analysis Coaching Centre of the IIAp together with the planetarium shall be a high-tech hub for training and coaching that may upskill college students and lecturers, and conduct outreach and consciousness programmes for society, Subramanian stated.
This undertaking is financially supported by MPLADS funds of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Division of Science and Expertise, Division of Atomic Power and Workplace of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Authorities of India.