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Astronomy Resources

Explore Hawai‘i 
Sunrise & Sunset Tables
Sky Maps
Phases of the Moon
Astronomy Highlights

Select a resource from the images below. Email your astronomy and earth science questions to us at planetarium@bishopmuseum.org

Astronomy Highlights

Phases of the Moon

Lāhainā Noon

Hawaii Sunrise & Sunset

Additional Resources

a full moon with a black background.

Online Learning Center

Discover the Planetarium Online Learning Center for activities and resources.

Hawaii Sunrise & Sunset

Skymaps

Phases
of the Moon

Lahaina Noon

Astronomy Highlights

Additional
Resources

About the Planetarium

Bishop Museum’s Jhamandas Watumull Planetarium opened its doors on December 12, 1961. Originally called the Kilolani Planetarium, the Watumull Planetarium has served over six million visitors and students over 60 years of continuous operation. The Planetarium was instrumental in the recovery of the nearly lost art and science of traditional, non-instrument navigation in Hawaiʻi. Nainoa Thompson spent countless hours in the Planetarium with Will Kyselka and other Planetarium staff in the late 1970s learning how to read the night sky. We are honored to continue that legacy by serving as a training space for today’s navigators.

Our GOTO Chronos II optical star projector provides one of the most vivid, realistic recreations of the night sky available today, with 8,500 pinpoint stars and realistic, bright planets. Our Digistar 4K
full-dome video system covers the entire dome in immersive video, allowing us to fly through the rings of Saturn, into the depths of the Orion nebula, out to the edge of the universe, and even simulate a voyage across the Pacific.

The Planetarium has 64 seats and serves 70,000 people a year. The planetarium focuses on programs about Hawaiʻi, blending live and prerecorded elements within each program.

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OPEN DAILY 9 AM – 5 PM

1525 BERNICE STREET
HONOLULU, HAWAI’I 96817

OPEN DAILY 9 AM – 5 PM

1525 BERNICE STREET
HONOLULU, HAWAI’I 96817

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