page_title: ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre
section_title: Planetarium
hierarchical_section_title: ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre / Planetarium
caption_attribution_description: English: This ultra HD photograph taken during the ESO Ultra HD Expedition captures ESO's Paranal Observatory in this 360 degree fish-eye (fulldome) view. The swirling Milky Way can be seen at its centre. The four 8.2m Unit Telescopes (UTs) — Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun — can be seen below, along with the four movable 1.8m diameter Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs), making up the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The telescopes can work together, to form a giant ‘interferometer’, the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, allowing astronomers to see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes.
context_page_description: The ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre is an astronomy centre located at the site of the European Southern Observatory Headquarters in Garching bei München. It offers exhibitions, guided tours and planetarium shows that feature observations made by the telescopes of the European Southern Observatory.
  The ESO Supernova is a non-profit educational facility which receives no state funding other than through ESO’s normal operating budget. Entrance to the centre and all activities are free of charge throughout 2018. From 2019, tickets will be sold for activities like planetarium shows, tours and events. The entrance to the exhibition and all educational activities will remain free.
context_section_description: The visitor centre hosts a 14-metre diameter, tilted planetarium dome, able to accommodate up to 109 visitors. The planetarium has 5 Velvet projectors with a total resolution of 4250 pixels. It is driven by the software packages Digistar 6, Uniview, Powerdome, World Wide Telescope, Resolume and Space Engine.
  The centre will display planetarium shows produced by external producers and original shows produced by ESO. The fulldome material that ESO is developing for ESO Supernova is available to other planetariums for free, released under the Creative Commons 4.0 License. It is available together with subtitles and narration translated into several languages.
caption: Ultra HD photograph captures Paranal Observatory in a 360 degree fish-eye (fulldome) view.[7]
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