Fairfax County Public Schools Planetarium Website with Spitz Projector


The Ecliptic Projector

ecliptic projector

The smaller projector sitting on top of the coordinates projector is the ecliptic projector. It projects the ecliptic on the dome. The ecliptic is the apparent path of the sun through the sky during the year.

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Last updated September 27, 2008