Special Guest Speaker – Cathy McWatters You wanted fun? Don’t miss this! This will be a visual trip with your senses with an anaglyph presentation of the universe. 3D Glasses will be provided. Surprisingly NASA uses anaglyph to measure distances and height of mountains and other geological features on Mars and other planets. There are many astronomical images that give the illusion of being “in space” that have scientific value. Come and be amazed.

Speaker: Elliot Meyer For 25 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been our primary eye on the Universe in space. Through it we have vastly expanded our understanding of the Cosmos and our place within it. Not only an amazing scientific instrument, HST has also become a popular science icon. As the successor of Hubble approaches its launch date let’s take a look at why we need telescopes in space, how HST was almost a colossal failure, and how its successor will reach even futher back to the view other worlds and infant galaxies.

Come out and join Ylab for a maker night at the DDO. Keep working on your robotics toy hack. Get away from the rest of the world and work on some software (bring your own phone for Internet access. We're working on that.). Bring another project. Maybe get some help on it. Check out the latest on our advanced light sabre engineering. See if you can get one of the 3D printers running. Add to our collective strong backs and weak minds as we move some furniture around and do some work to get the place organised.

Measuring light pollution of your sky, see www.globeatnight.org

Enjoy and learn about the night sky through an engaging presentation delivered by an astronomer. Learn about history, mythology and how to identify star constellations overhead.

Dan Falk - The Science of Shakespeare

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Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:00pm, and 9:00pm Are we alone? This question has inspired scientific research for millenia, but in the last fifty years astronomers have taken the first tentative steps toward answering it. In this planetarium show, we journey to the worlds of our Solar System, from Mars to Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan, in search of environments that could potentially foster life. We then travel hundreds of light-years away from the Sun to explore some of the most extreme, most bizarre and most Earth-like extrasolar planets discovered to date.

Enjoy and learn about the night sky through an engaging presentation delivered by an astronomer. Learn about history, mythology and how to identify star constellations overhead.

Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:00pm, and 9:00pm Are we alone? This question has inspired scientific research for millenia, but in the last fifty years astronomers have taken the first tentative steps toward answering it. In this planetarium show, we journey to the worlds of our Solar System, from Mars to Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan, in search of environments that could potentially foster life. We then travel hundreds of light-years away from the Sun to explore some of the most extreme, most bizarre and most Earth-like extrasolar planets discovered to date.

Dr. Suresh Sivanandam

Revolutionary progress has been achieved in the science of cosmology over the past 30 years. Powerful experiments, made possible by new technologies, have transformed our understanding of the universe. We have unveiled the laws of physics that govern time and space on the grandest scales, from the big bang to present day.