Takayuki Ohira who developed the world’s most advanced planetarium projector called “MEGASTAR” visited the ALMA site in Chile from June to July this year. His visit will be broadcast on NHK’s satellite channel this week. In the program, Ohira, the creator of the planetarium projector that can reproduce five million stars, will see incredibly beautiful star-filled night sky at the ALMA site. The program also shows Japanese researchers who work for the ALMA project in Chile.

Air date: October 18 (Tuesday) 8:00 -8:58 PM
Rerun: October 20 (Thursday) 8:30 AM- / October 22 (Saturday) 7:45 AM-
Channel: NHK BS Premium *The program will be broadcast in Japanese .

The picture shows Ohira (center) with NHK crew shooting the program at the ALMA Array Operations Site (AOS) at 5000 m asl. [Photographed by Masaaki Hiramatsu (NAOJ)]