Chart plate No. 99 · Epoch J2026.5

Dr. Jane Eyre

Planetarium Director · Astrophysicist
Accra, Ghana
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Abstract · Observer's summary

I run the Accra Meridian Planetarium: about 300 public shows a year for roughly 90,000 visitors. Over 12 years I have moved between stellar kinematics research (8 published papers) and the practical work of getting a dome, a projector, and a school class into the same room. The mobile planetarium I built has now visited 200 schools; the truck complains more than the students do.

14h 15h 16h 17h 18h +30° +20° +10° PhD defended EYRE 2014-a 2014 First show season EYRE 2016-b Head of Programmes EYRE 2018-c Mobile dome launch EYRE 2020-d Directorship EYRE 2022-e 90k visitors / yr EYRE 2025-f 2025
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Star catalog · Positions held

EYRE 2022-e 2022 – present

Director

Accra Meridian Planetarium · Accra
  • Run 300 public shows a year for about 90,000 visitors; annual attendance grew 38% since 2022 under a flat marketing budget.
  • Manage a staff of 21 and a GHS 4.2M annual budget across shows, exhibits, and school outreach.
  • Commissioned a 4K hybrid projection system in 2024; show cancellations from equipment faults fell from 14 to 2 per year.
EYRE 2018-c 2018 – 2022

Head of Programmes

Accra Meridian Planetarium · Accra
  • Built and launched the mobile planetarium in 2020: a 7 m inflatable dome that has since reached 200 schools and 61,000 students.
  • Wrote and produced 9 original dome shows in English, Twi, and Ga; two are now licensed to 5 planetariums abroad.
  • Trained 34 teachers a year in a 3-day astronomy workshop, funded through 2 grants totalling GHS 850,000.
EYRE 2016-b 2014 – 2018

Staff Astronomer & Presenter

Accra Meridian Planetarium · Accra
  • Presented roughly 180 live shows a year; audience scores averaged 4.6/5 across 2,400 collected surveys.
  • Published 5 first-author papers on open cluster kinematics in the Journal of Equatorial Astronomy and Harmattan Astrophysics Letters.
EYRE 2014-a 2010 – 2014

Doctoral Researcher

Volta Institute of Space Science · Legon
  • Thesis on velocity dispersion in southern open clusters; 3 papers from the thesis, 210 citations to date.
  • Logged 46 observing nights at the Aburi Ridge 1.2 m telescope, including 11 as lead observer.

Instrumentation & skills

  • Dome show production Digistar-class systems, fulldome video pipeline, live scripting
  • Data analysis Python, astropy, Gaia DR3 catalog work
  • Public speaking audiences from 15 schoolchildren to 600-seat halls
  • Grant writing GHS 1.4M raised across 5 awards since 2018
  • Languages English, Twi, Ga; conversational French

Selected publications

  • Eyre, J. (2023). "Kinematic ages of six southern open clusters." Journal of Equatorial Astronomy, 41(2), 118–134.
  • Eyre, J. & Mensah, K. (2021). "A low-cost fulldome pipeline for small planetariums." Harmattan Astrophysics Letters, 9(4), 77–89.
  • Eyre, J. (2017). "Velocity dispersion profiles from Gaia DR1 proper motions." Journal of Equatorial Astronomy, 35(1), 12–29.