Hybrid - Digital Planetarium, Chennai

Hybrid Planetarium is the new generation in planetarium system, combining the beautiful starry sky projected by opto-mechanical projectors with fulldome digital video systems which bring dynamic colorful images to the dome such as apparent motion of stars, space flight, planets, nebulae, galaxies and other astronomical images. In the hybrid planetarium system, the new advanced central star projector projects the stars and the planets as we see in the night sky, along with constellation images on the dome. The 5 high resolution (4k) digital projectors in the periphery of the planetarium, controlled by the most advanced digital machines, can project stunning immersive video and breathtaking images of the celestial objects. The combined system can instantly display the night sky at any place in the world at any given time in the past or future. We can show the sky map of a place for any place / any time any period 10000 years back or 10000 years in the future.