The school holidays are an excellent time for families to familiarise themselves with our beautiful night skies. From 21 March until 13 April, Iziko Planetarium will offer a programme of shows catering for stargazers of all ages.

Running weekdays at 12:00 and 13:00, and weekends at 12:00, is ‘Tick Tock – The Mouse and the Clock’ in which Morris Mouse discovers precisely how time ‘flies’ and learns many amazing facts about time and space. This show is a delight for 5-12 year-olds.

Suitable for teens and adults, and running weekdays at 14:00 and weekends at 14:30, is ‘Cape of Stars’ which examines the Cape’s rich astronomical heritage and also takes a look at our unique geographical feature, Table Mountain, which boasts its own stellar constellation, Mons Mensa.

The popular ‘Sky Tonight’, an in-depth discussion of the current night sky, runs weekends at 13:00. Visitors will receive a sky map.

During May, Tony Fairall, Professor of Astronomy at UCT, and a well-known lecturer and author, returns to present his basic astronomy course, ‘Starfinder’.

The Planetarium is situated in the Iziko South African Museum in Queen Victoria Street. Enquiries: Tel. 021 481 3900 or visit http://www.iziko.org.za

Image credits

Starfinder Course: Tarantula Cluster (Image supplied by NASA)

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