"SolarMAX" is a breathtaking giant-screen adventure that explores man's quest through for knowledge about the awesome and mysterious power of the closest star.

For the first time audiences will be able to look directly at the Sun and see it in a way never seen before, through the eyes of the large-format film camera. The film uses images captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observer (SOHO) to generate film images for the giant screen, providing audiences with a spectacular sense of actually being there.

Portraying a star that is peaceful yet dangerous, "SolarMAX" allows viewers to vividly experience the Sun's power and beauty like never before. From the x-ray eyes of the TRACE satellite to the projected images on the floor of the solar telescope observatory at Kitt Peak in Arizona, "SolarMAX" examines man's changing perception of the Sun throughout time. Viewers will learn how the views of Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo and Keppler were both right and wrong, and how each successive solar explorer dramatically changed the world's view.

"SolarMAX" is a Heliograph Production in association with Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. The U.S. National Science Foundation provided funding to make "SOLAR MAX" a reality.