Event Name: An evening planetarium program with renowned UC Berkeley Professor, Hitoshi Murayama
Location: Planetarium
Event Date: Wednesday, 11/19/2025
Event Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Tickets Available: 120
Purchase Deadline: Wednesday, 11/19/2025 5:30 PM

“Prime Focus Spectrograph: A New Compound Eye Gazing at the Universe”

An evening planetarium program with renowned UC Berkeley Professor, Hitoshi Murayama

Where do we come from? Where are we going? These questions are common to the entire humankind, and especially deeply rooted in Polynesian and East Asian cultures. We built a new $100M instrument to study these questions mounted on the Subaru telescope atop Maunakea. It will explore how stars and galaxies are born in the gravitational womb of dark matter. It will study how the universe has been expanding and where it is going, or whether it will end. These grand questions can be studied only thanks to the pristine environment and public support on Hawai'i Island. PFS (to be replaced) will have 2400 eyes on the universe to conduct these studies which would have taken 1000 years otherwise. 

Ticket: Price: Quantity:
Member Adult$5.00Login
Member Child (5-11)$5.00Login
Member Child (4 and Under)$5.00Login
Adult (13-64)$10.00
Child (5-11)$10.00
Child (4 & Under)$10.00