FICTIONAL PLANETARIUM - SAMPLE SITE

SIDE STREET OBSERVATORY - EST. 1962 (INVENTED) - BUFFALO, NY (INVENTED)

LOOKUP.

Sidereal is a fictional neighborhood planetarium. One dome, one very patient projector, and a sky that starts every night at dusk. Nothing here is a real venue - but the star field really turns when you drag it.

DOME 18 MSEATS 68SHOWS NIGHTLY 19:00 + 21:30ALL SAMPLE DATA
DRAG THE SKY ↔

NOW SHOWING - SAMPLE PROGRAM

Three shows,
one sky.

Aurora over a snowy field at night

TONIGHT'S SKY: LIVE

The presenter flies the dome through whatever is actually overhead - constellations, planets, one satellite if it behaves. All narration invented.

40 MINSAMPLE
Green aurora band across the night sky

AURORA

A full-dome film about the northern lights, from solar wind to green fire over the ice. Soundtrack by a fictional choir of very cold people.

32 MINSAMPLE
Close-up of the moon's cratered surface

THE MOON, UP CLOSE

A slow lap around the Moon in borrowed telescope light - craters, seas, and the far side nobody shows you. Narrator is fictional; the craters are not.

28 MINSAMPLE

THE DOME - PICK YOUR SEATS (SAMPLE)

Every seat faces
straight up.

SEATSNONE YET
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RUNTIME40 MIN (SAMPLE)
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TAP SEATS ON THE CHART. CENTER RINGS RECLINE FURTHER. PRICES INVENTED - THIS VENUE DOES NOT EXIST.

TONIGHT OVER BUFFALO (INVENTED FORECAST)

The sky draws
itself.

Full moon with visible craters against a black skySAMPLE PHOTO - UNSPLASH
CASSIOPEIA - HIGH NE 22:40 (SAMPLE)

Scroll this far on a clear night here and the W of Cassiopeia is already up in the northeast. Our dome traces it for you, minus the frostbite. Forecast, position and times on this page are invented.