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The big, mechanical-insect-looking contraption is our star machine, the Minolta MS-10 projector. It can produce up to 4,000 celestial objects, and can simulate the sky over any part of Earth at any time in human history. The machine was built in 1970, and installed at Mark Smith Planetarium in 1989.
