The monarch butterfly is a true marvel of nature. Weighing less than a penny, it makes one of the longest migrations on Earth across a continent to a place it has never known.
It’s a natural history epic. It’s a compelling detective story. It’s a scientific adventure at its best. It took Dr. Fred Urquhart almost 40 years to discover the monarch butterflies’ secret hideaway and prove the most incredible migration on Earth. Following the year-long annual migration cycle of the butterflies, the award-winning production team filmed hundreds of millions of monarchs in their remote overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico in 2011 and again in 2012 and also along their migratory routes from Canada, across the U.S. and into Mexico.
The technology of planetarium immerses you in the astounding migration experience as two generations of the butterflies migrate north and then a Super Generation miraculously finds its way from Canada to a few isolated mountaintops in Mexico – to a place it has never been!
Also featured will the planetarium short film, Aurora Storm. Aurora Storm is an 11-minute NASA-funded fulldome show about the captivating northern lights. Narrated by two Athabascan Alaska natives this show melds science and technology with literature and a multicultural look at the aurorae. Experience the dazzling aurorae through the eyes of scientists, photographers and local inhabitants who share their traditional views of this phenomenon.
After the show, if the sky is clear, we'll have our telescopes out for views of Jupiter, Mars and more.
Show Times:
Thursday, May 11
6:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 13
11:00 a.m.
Target Audience: All Ages
