ORPHEUS

[ 2017 ]

ORPHEUS is the world's first planetarium that can reproduce all 88 constellation pictures. In addition, it has new function to turn stars on or off according to their brightness. Stars dimmer than magnitude 3.5 can be switched in groups of ½ magnitude each.

[ Spec ]

Dome : 8-16 m
Number of fixed stars : 8,000,000 (including Milky way)

[ Installation site ]

Kochi MIRAI Science Center / Saku Children's Science Dome for the Future / Kashiwazaki City Museum / Matsumoto City Education and Culture Center / Byeolmaro Observatory (Korea) / Minato Science Museum / Yonago City Children Culture Center / Kyoto Municipal Science Center For Youth / Nagano Prefectural Ina Culture Hall / Shanghai Astronomy Museum（China） / DENZAI Environmental Science Museum / LWL Museum of Natural History with Planetarium（Germany） / Howard B. Owens Science Center（U.S.A.）/ Science Museum Oklahoma Love’s Planetarium（U.S.A.）/ Hachinohe Children’s Science Museum