World's First Tilted LED Planetarium To Open In Mysuru By 2025

In thrilling news, Mysuru in Karnataka is going to be home to the world's very first tilted dome LED planetarium. The whole new project is now in progress at the Chamundi Hills campus and hopes to open in September 2025. This planetarium is being developed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIAp) in collaboration with the Mysore University. The facility will cost INR 91 crores and offers an incredible experience of the planetarium.

World's First Tilted LED Planetarium To Open In Mysuru By 2025

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The latest planetarium will have not only modern but also state-of-the-art technology that has not yet been invented, such as LED's instead of the traditional planetarium lights. The new dome will have a diameter of 15 meters and will be set at a 15-degree angle. The technology provides viewings that are considered to be optimal in this new facility in which you can see the stars right above your head as if you were viewing them in reality. 

According to IIAp Director Annapurni Subramanian, a wider palette of colours and brighter images will be visible with a new LED installation as against those projected images from the usual install pipes. With this technology, it is expected that the facility will be able to provide very realistic impressions of the starry skies, planets, and other celestial bodies.

SkyExplorer, an example of advanced astronomical software established by the France-based organization RSA Cosmos, was installed within the planetarium. The software will be able to manipulate the 8K LED lights that offer a great detail of the world's experience. RSA Cosmos, with the help of its Indian subsidiary Orbit Animate Pvt. Ltd., is involved in building and setting up the LED dome system for the new planetarium.

According to plans, the innovative planetarium is expected to be one of the many components of COSMOS-the Cosmology Education and Research Training Centre. COSMOS wants to be a place for learning about astronomy, so it will run programs for students and teachers while educating the place through public outreach about astronomy and cosmology. In this context, COSMOS will serve as a vital motivating means of inspiring an entirely new generation of astronomers by its educational programs and skyline outreach activities.

The project financially funded by MPLADS scheme of the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman; in addition to that it has also gathered support from the Department of Science and Technology, Department of Atomic Energy, and Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India.

So, next year, Mysuru will have one new attraction to explore that will be an experience of a lifetime.