Description
Located at the Dragão do Mar Center of Art and Culture in Fortaleza, the Rubens de Azevedo Planetarium is among the most modern in the country. With a capacity of 80 people, the Planetarium allows a fantastic view of the stars with digital images. It features advanced Zeiss technology, German-made equipment that reproduces the sky with excellent fidelity and simulates astronomical phenomena.
With armchairs distributed in a circle, the Planetarium reserves moments of pure emotion, besides opening doors to the world of information, science and art and culture, strengthening the tourist-educational activities of the State.
Homage to Rubens de Azevedo
The Planetarium was named after the Ceará Astronomer who created the first Brazilian Society of Friends of Astronomy (SBAA) in 1947. The following year, 1948, Rubens de Azevedo founded the first Brazilian popular observatory, the Popular Flammarion Observatory, and the Brazilian Society of Selenography in São Paulo. He was responsible for creating associations and clubs for astronomy and observatories and planetariums in Brazil, as well as being the precursor in the struggle for the establishment of a planetarium in Ceará.
Among other contributions, Rubens designed the First Brazilian Lunar Map, with 80 cm, which is exposed in the National Astronomy Museum. He also discovered a lunar valley during a lunar eclipse, whose existence had been confirmed by astronomers, who suggested to the National Astronomical Union the attribution of the name "Vale Azevedo".
He was professor of Selenography at the Municipal School of Astrophysics in São Paulo, of Astronomy and Astronautics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Sorocaba, and professor of Astronomical Geography at the State University of Ceará.
Born on October 30, 1921 in the city of Fortaleza, Rubens de Azevedo is the author of the books "Selene, the moon in the reach of all", "Moon step for infinity", "In the world of Estelândia", " "" Legend Made of Stone, "" Halley's Comet, and the National Flag. "
Professor Rubens de Azevedo died in January 2008 at the age of 86.
Technical information and accesses:
- The Rubens de Azevedo Planetarium is endowed with a Zeiss Skymaster ZKP4 - Space Gate Quinto projector with Power Dome, produced by the German company Carl Zeiss Jena, inventor of the planetarium and that for more than 70 years holds the technology of the best planetariums in the world.
- It is equipped with video sources, high-performance sound table, acoustic sound system that directs the sound throughout the hemispherical dome.
- It is covered by a dome of 11 meters in diameter covering an area of 78.5 m².
- The Planetarium is located on the top floor of the CDMAC, next to the Amphitheater.
- The Dragon of the Sea has different accesses to the Planetarium, like stairs, ramps and elevators.
- The box office is in Space Mix.
Address
Fortaleza
Brazil
Lat: -3.721607924 - Lng: -38.519195557
