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Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium at Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere [29] Longo Planetarium at County College of Morris , Randolph New Jersey State Museum Planetarium, Trenton
Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory (BCC Observatory; Brevard Community College Observatory) FL: BCC Observatory, Cocoa 759: Nashville Observatory (Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory) TN: Nashville 760: Goethe Link Observatory: IN: Goethe Link Observatory, Brooklyn 761: Quail Hollow Observatory: FL: Zephyrhills 762: Four Winds Observatory: MI
The International Planetarium Society, Inc. (IPS) is the global association of planetarium professionals. Its more than 600 members come from 42 countries around the world. They represent schools, colleges and universities, museums , and public facilities of all sizes, including both fixed and portable planetariums.
The Kovac Planetarium. It is 22 feet in diameter and weighs two tons. The globe is made of wood and is driven with a variable speed motor controller. This is the largest mechanical planetarium in the world, larger than the Atwood Globe in Chicago (15 feet in diameter) and one third the size of the Hayden.
The machine itself is precious and aristocratic… The planetarium is school, theater, and cinema in one classroom under the eternal dome of the sky." 1925: May 7, 1925: World premiere of the "Wonder of Jena" (Das Wunder von Jena) at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. 1927: First planetarium built outside Germany, a temporary installation in ...
The Brussels Planetarium is one of the most important planetariums in Europe and a leading attraction in Belgium. The planetarium has an international scientific reputation, and is one of the largest in Europe, with its dome of 23 metres (75 ft) in diameter, [1] on which the Sun, the Moon, the planets, the Milky Way and more than 8,500 stars can be projected.
The Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium is the successor to the Dow Planetarium (known in later years as the Montreal Planetarium), and is located in the Space for Life, near the Olympic Stadium and the Biodome in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1] The new installation has two separate theatres as well as exhibits on space and astronomy.
Stellarium is a free and open-source planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android, iOS, and Symbian as a paid version, being developed by Noctua Software. These have a limited ...