SF Kika Silva Pla Planetarium

04/14/2025

Join us for a very special concert THIS coming Saturday, April 19th at 8:30 PM - "The Fluteity Project: Music Under the Stars". Tickets are going quickly, so click on the link below to secure a good seat!

Audiences will be taken on a celestial adventure through the universe using music as our navigator. You will be introduced to a symphony of acoustic sounds including modern and indigenous flutes, tuning instruments and spoken word weaved together through intuitive improvisation and experimentation. Get energized under the stars!

(A Greatness By Design, LLC Production)

Performance length: 60 minutes
Seating Capacity: 52
Ages: General audiences

https://www.sfcollege.edu/events.html -details/eb220389-535c-4825-977b-adb5514b6195

03/13/2025

After 2 years of penumbral and partial lunar eclipses, we finally have a total lunar eclipse, TONIGHT (Friday morning, March 14, 2025)

Learn all about it:

https://youtu.be/BLJc1KSF7QA?si=zgbs-Ne2c1Y5-7kX

04/03/2024

Join us from 1:45 pm - 4:15 pm on Monday, April 8, 2024 for our free solar eclipse viewing event at the SF Kika Silva Pla Planetarium! 😀

Learn more about the eclipse and how to safely observe it here:

Learn about the 2nd total solar eclipse across the contiguous United States since 2017, and where to see 'Totality'.Become a Patreon Supporter: http://patreo...

02/08/2024

Our planetarium manager gives you an introduction to what it is like to be a Planetarium Manager. 😀

https://www.virtualjobshadow.com/partners/planetarium-manager/

12/24/2023

After 9 months of editing, technical issues (and procrastination), episode TSAU 2023-05 is finally done!

"Auriga is Awesome!"

TSAU 2023 - 05 Auriga is Awesome!Finally! After a delay of almost 9 months, we've finally finished this episode! Learn about the constellation Auriga the ...

12/21/2023

Woo-hoo! We got an article in the Main Street Daily News! :)

Side note: I wish I had worn my blazer for the main photo. My shirt tucking left a lot to be desired by that time of the day.

Gainesville’s only planetarium provides prime opportunity for stargazing.

11/06/2023

After 17 years, our Goto Chronos (circa 2006) is getting its computers upgraded! We are the first Chronos 1 installation in North America to get this upgrade. Our original computers, being 17 years old, still ran Windows 2000.

10/19/2023

Join us for FREE lunar observing through telescopes during "International Observe the Moon Night", 7pm - 9 pm on Saturday, October 21, 2023.

10/15/2023

Yay! We had a great turn out for the partial solar eclipse on Saturday, October 14, 2023. 😁 Thank you to the Alachua Astronomy Club (AAC) for joining us with solar filtered telescopes and thank you to the Asterion Foundation for providing "Sun Spotter" projection devices and a grant that allowed us to purchase thousands of solar eclipse viewers. In the weeks leading up to the eclipse, we distributed over 3000 eclipse viewers to people in our community. Finally, thank you to our outstanding team members (Bo, Aaron, Brian, John, Isabella and Professor Greg Mead) for working tirelessly throughout the day to help everything run smoothly. Keep looking up! 😁

10/10/2023

https://youtu.be/VT9oqAhEpyk

Learn about this Saturday's solar eclipse and best practices for viewing it!

TSAU 2023 - 010 The October Solar EclipseBecome a Patreon Supporter: http://patreon.com/JamesAlbury825 ​Visit our website for more content!: http://theskyabo...

08/24/2023

There's an occultation of the star Antares by the Moon TONIGHT (Thursday, August 24, 2023). Learn all about it here!

TSAU 2023 - 009 Antares OccultationOn August 24, 2023, we will be treated to an occultation of the star Antares by the Moon. Learn all about it here!Become ...

08/24/2023

Join us for our course on "Learning the Constellations", Saturday, October 21 and 28, 2023. Below is a link to the catalog for this semester, featuring our Planetarium Manager on the cover!

Read Enrich Fall 2023 by Santa Fe College on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. Start here!