臺灣的星象館發展

The Development of Planetariums in Taiwan

星象館（星象儀）是天文教育的重要工具。1957年，國立台灣科學館在美蘇太空競賽風潮中設置了一座Spitz-A1星象儀，是為台灣星象館教育之濫觴。作者經過數年調查後，整理出台灣地區70座星象館的基本資料以及其發展歷程。我們發現台灣的星象館分佈呈現兩頭大中間細的「啞鈴」狀分佈，而且北部地區的23座星象館有22座集中於台北縣市，顯示這方面的資源分配非常不平均。我們也發現台灣的星象儀幾乎都是日本五藤公司的產品，我們將會簡單分析這個奇特現象背後的歷史與文化因素。在文中我們也簡單的介紹快速發展中的「數位式星象儀」，並針對這項可能帶來教學革命的新工具提出一些教學上的建議。最後我們也將提出一些建議，希望能有助於提高國內的星象教學品質。

Planetarium is a very powerful teaching aid in astronomy education. In 1957, the National Taiwan Science Museum installed a Spitz A-1 planetarium and opened a new era of science education in Taiwan. We surveyed 70 planetariums in Taiwan and rebuild the path of their development. We learned from our survey that the planetariums in Taiwan distribute like a “Dumbbell”, which indicates that most planetariums are distributed in northern and southern Taiwan, Even more, 22 of the 23 planetariums in northern Taiwan are concentrated in Taipei city and county. It indicates a serious bias of the allotment of Taiwan’s education resource. In our survey, we also noticed that 87.7% of Taiwan’s planetariums are products of Goto Opt. Co., Japan. We would give a comment on this interesting phenomenon briefly. In this article, we would also briefly introduce the “Digital Planetarium”, a fast developing equipment which may brings about revolution of planetarium education in coming future. At the end of this article, we would give some suggestions through which we expect that may helps to improve Taiwan’s planetarium education.