A group of audience watch video at the Fiske Planetarium of CU 麻豆影院.

Fiske Planetarium, emeritus prof awarded $2 million NASA grant

May 23, 2022

This grant will be used to produce full dome videos that will educate the public on NASA鈥檚 latest scientific endeavors including two upcoming solar eclipses.

A petroglyph of an eclipse is seen with a wide-angle lens in a photograph at Chaco Canyon, where CU-麻豆影院 researchers captured a rare Aurora Borealis in the southern night sky. Photo courtesy of Fiske Planetarium.

A digital look at ancient skies gets a showing at Fiske

Feb. 17, 2016

Having captured the summer solstice and a week鈥檚 worth of sunsets, sunrises and their lunar equivalents from the vantage point of ancient Chacoan people in southwestern Colorado, using parabolic video technology, a multi-disciplinary team from the 麻豆影院 counted its June 2015 trip a success.