Staged Reading As A Genre Suitable For Planetariums
TalkTeaching Methods and Tools
7th Shaw-IAU Workshop
Tuesday Nov. 18, 2025
UTC: 3 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. America/New_York: 10 a.m.- 10:10 a.m.
Friday Nov. 21, 2025
UTC: 8 a.m. - 8:10 a.m. America/New_York: 3 a.m.- 3:10 a.m.
Tomáš Gráf (Silesian University, Opava)
"The sky above Opava in the changes of the ages"
How the view of the night sky has changed over eight centuries of existence of our city? What happened in Opava in epochal times astronomical discoveries? Did the inhabitants of the Opava region become fascinated by the view of the sky less or more than it is today?
The experimental show in the Unisphere will try to reflect on these questions in the form of a staged reading accompanied by a spherical projection of the night sky.
/premiere in November 2024/
About Tomáš Gráf
Tomáš Gráf is a Czech astronomer and university teacher. From 1988 to 2015 he worked at the Ostrava Planetarium (VŠB - Technical University), from 1992 to 2014 as the head of this institution. He has long been involved in the organization of the Astronomy Olympiad. Since 2015 he has been working at the Silesian University in Opava. He is responsible for the WHOO! observatory and the Unisphere (digital spherical projection). At the Faculty of Philosophy and Natural Sciences of the Silesian University in Opava, he has also held the position of Vice Dean for Strategy and Development since 2017.
