Saturday, December 4, 2010

TRIVANDRUM PLANETARIUM

Trivandrum I hope you may all well knowing about the city It is the capital of Kerela in India and another speciality is that holds Priyadersini Planetarium.The Priyadarshini Planetarium is situated within the Kerala State Science and TechnologyMuseum premises in Thiruvananthapuram. It is one of the most sophisticated and versatile planetariums in India. 


The marvellous planetarium complex has a centrally air-conditioned sky theatre, conference hall, workshops and a sound-studio.Priyadarshini planetarium is one of the most splendid planetarium of the country. The projector here can visualize almost the entire universe. It can visualize the sky on any day up to 12,500 years back or 12,500 years ahead. 




The Kerala State Science and Technology Museum lies adjacent to the planetarium. The museum has galleries on Electronics, Motion and Power, Electricity and Magnetism, Mechanics, Automobile Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering, Mathematics etc. The sole purpose of the museum is to provide extensive knowledge about the new dimensions of Physics to scholars as well as ordinary people. 




The museum park at the planetarium premises has numerous outdoor exhibits, which include models of rockets and airplanes. The planetarium complex opens everyday except Monday. The planetarium have shows at 10.30 am (Malayalam), 12.00 pm (English), 3.00 pm (Malayalam) and 5.00 pm (Malayalam). Specialty is that its an studio and similar to theater they will explain the whole video and stars and create a feeling that we are travelling in the sky.


Eclipse show in Planetarium

Explaining in Roof with Studio Rotating projector

Outside of plantorium

Star description