Recreation

Item Description

The Santa Rosa Junior College Planetarium offers planetarium presentations especially designed to be of interest to students of all grade levels and the community. Each program contains spectacular visual effects and up-to-date information on the various topics covered.

The goal in presenting these programs is to stimulate interest and curiosity in the universe by combining education and entertainment.

With a dome 40 feet in diameter and 27 feet high and a capacity to seat 90, the Planetarium is one of the largest space science facilities in the California Community College System. As a Department in the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math cluster, it is an important addition to the SRJC's Santa Rosa campus, one in which the community can be proud.

The Planetarium contains some of the most modern and sophisticated equipment, including the Goto model GX-10 star projector. This machine can reproduce the appearance of the sky onto the dome, showing the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars in their proper positions. Moreover, this projector can show the heavenly bodies as they appear from any place on Earth at any time in the past or future, for thousands of years. It can speed up the motions of the heavens so that days, years, centuries, or even millenia can be made to pass in minutes.

The function of the Planetarium is threefold. It is an instructional facility for students at SRJC; it provides a variety of programs designed to support the studies of students in elementary, junior high, and high school; and it serves as a theater for public planetarium presentations on the weekends.

Item Special Note

Shipping: If you are not a school parent, this item will be shipped to you at your expense unless you contact us at info@thecharterfoundation.org by Monday, May 18, at 9 am, to elect pick up instead of shipping. The estimated shipping and insurance charge for this item is $2.70. The Charter Foundation is not responsible for items lost or damaged in transit.

Pick Up: School parents (and others who contact us by 9 am on Monday, May 18) can pick up this item at Sebastopol Charter School on Wednesday, May 20, between 2 and 4 pm. Details about pick up location, any additional pick up times, and scheduling a special pick up time will be emailed to winning bidders at the close of auction.

Billing: Credit cards will be automatically billed starting Monday, May 18. If you prefer a different method of payment, please email us at info@thecharterfoundation.org by 9 am on Monday, May 18.