The SKA is now available in Augmented Reality!

Experience the SKA antennas in augmented reality. Credit: ICRAR

Experience both antenna designs of the SKA on their sites in South Africa and Western Australia brought to life in augmented reality. What’s more you can personalise them with your own choice of colours!

Draw your own shapes and colours in the real world on the new SKA colouring sheet, and using your mobile device see it pop into life in the digital world on the surface of the SKA’s dishes.

Once you’re in the app, you can explore the SKA antennas in both telescope host countries, and learn more about how a radio telescope like the SKA will collect information from the sky for astronomers around the globe. You can see how the SKA-Low antennas will be laid out in stations in Australia, and even give them a colour of their own.

The augmented reality experience has been developed by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) with New Zealand firm Quivervision, and funding from SKA Australia and the Australian Government.

You can download the colouring sheet and design your own via the ICRAR website. The Quivervision app behind the augmented reality experience is available for free on the Apple app store and the Google Play Store.

by ICRAR