Stia planetarium

The planetarium reconstructs, inside a room with a special dome, the celestial vault as we would see it outdoors in a place far from the annoying city lights. By playing with the celestial sphere and simulating space-time movements to discover the boreal sky in the various seasons, you can recognize the constellations, the motions of stars, moon, sun and planets and you can learn to be oriented with the stars. The Center has instruments and didactic support materials: instruments for measurements and observations, slides, videos, cd-roms, software, magazines, books and informative material. The large external square can be used for experiments on the motion of the Sun and sun terrace, a series of educational tools that allow the determination of the height of the Sun on the horizon, the identification of the passage to the meridian and the equinoxes, the measure of time.