Giant Planisphere – Perenjori

Perenjori, Western Australia, Australia

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A giant interactive star wheel used for public astronomy and stargazing in Perenjori.

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Giant Planisphere – Perenjori

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Approximate location · 29.434° S, 116.289° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

The fourth giant star wheel in this catalogue, and the pattern is now clear enough to be worth naming.

The Shire of Perenjori identifies the installation of a Giant Planisphere as part of the town's astrotourism development, and Astrotourism WA used it at a September 2025 public event based at the Perenjori Caravan Park.

Western Australia has quietly built one of the more interesting pieces of rural tourism infrastructure in the country. Giant planispheres now stand at Perenjori, Northam, Narembeen and Yealering, with a stargazing site at Mount Owen near Menzies – permanent, free, weatherproof instruments installed in small towns whose principal asset is that there is nothing above them.

The economics are unusually good. A star wheel needs no power, no staff, no bookings and almost no maintenance; it works every clear night forever; and it gives a caravan park an activity to point guests toward after dinner. For a shire with a limited tourism budget it is close to the highest return available.

Perenjori sits in the northern Wheatbelt, north-east of Perth, in country better known for spring wildflowers – the district is on the wildflower routes that draw a substantial seasonal visitor flow. Installing night-time infrastructure extends that season into the hours the wildflower traffic was otherwise leaving.

Basing an event at the caravan park is the sensible choice: the audience is already on site and already outdoors.

No record survives of the dimensions, the material used or the installation date.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Astrotourism WA places the Giant Planisphere and observing site at Perenjori Golf Course, opposite the caravan park. The previous catalogue coordinate was the caravan park itself, not the planisphere; the current object point is therefore an approximate golf-course-side anchor until the installation is independently pinned.

ACCESS

Approach the Perenjori Golf Course observing site from the caravan-park side. Astrotourism WA says visitors may use two gates opposite the caravan park, but neither gate nor the Giant Planisphere has yet been independently pinned. The former arrival row pointed to the caravan park itself and was only an opposite-site reference, so it has been removed rather than treated as attraction geometry. Direct navigation remains withheld.

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Sources & research

Astrotourism WA – Perenjori Stargazing Event 2025

Astrotourism WA · recorded 2026-08-23

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Shire of Perenjori – Community Development Action Plan

Shire of Perenjori · recorded 2026-08-23

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Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

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