The Halifax Planetarium at Dalhousie University and the History of Science Technology Programme present
Astronomy on the Big Screen: Our Stellar Neighbourhood in Science Fiction
There are about ten seats left for this special presentation. Anyone interested in attending this free and roughly one-hour event should contact snobelen@dal.ca to reserve a spot.
Astronomy has inspired and informed science fiction films from the 1920s to today. Come to the Halifax Planetarium and learn how to locate real objects visible in the night sky that have featured in some noteworthy films.
It will be a spoiler-light treatment, and the films featured are:
Woman in the Moon (1929)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Blade Runner (1982)
Contact (1993)
Melancholia (2011)
Europa Report (2013)
Interstellar (2014)
The Martian (2015)
Passengers (2016)
Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) (2005)
Weather conditions permitting there will be roof-top observing after the show.
