* The new synagoge, which opened in 2007, consists of a white cube and stands in contrast to the round shape of the planetarium next door.

A new planetarium, connected to the Astronomy Museum, opened in 2004.

The planetarium was constructed in combination with an IMAX theater and opened in 1981.

Within a year, the Pacific Northwest's first public planetarium opened in a dome on the front lawn.

The planetarium finally opened on 12 October 1960.

First opened in 1949, the planetarium was used to train Gemini and Apollo program astronauts in celestial navigation.

The planetarium opened in 1970 and has 62 seats.

In 1969, APS opened a planetarium at the Northside campus.

The planetarium was opened in advance of Expo 67, located at 1000 Saint Jacques Street.

The planetarium officially opened to the public on 1987-10-22.

The current Taunton High School campus was state of the art for its time when it first opened in 1975, for it featured a modern greenhouse, planetarium, a modern public address system with a tone used for class-change signaling ( in contrast to standard class-change bells ) and telephones, and a high-tech ( for 1975 ) TV studio.

He ran the planetarium for eight years, also serving during this time as the first ( interim ) director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles when it opened in 1935.

Riverview's old main building opened in 1958, and included a planetarium.

The planetarium was built in 1973 and directed by Alan Friedman.

In 1973 a 1, 100 square foot domed planetarium was added to Phase 3 section of the campus, but it has since closed.

Established in 1973, it was the first science museum to combine interactive science exhibits with a planetarium and an IMAX Dome ( OMNIMAX ) theater, setting the standard that most major science museums follow today.

In the late 1960s the San Diego Hall of Science ( now known as the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center ) began searching North America for a large-format film system to project on the dome of their planned tilted dome planetarium.

The scientific and interactive exhibits then dwarfed the planetarium / theater, so the name was changed to the current Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.

In all, the astronauts who trained at the planetarium were Buzz Aldrin, Joseph P. Allen, William A. Anders, Neil A. Armstrong, Charles A. Bassett II, Alan L. Bean, Frank Borman, Vance D. Brand, John S. Bull, M. Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr, Eugene A. Cernan, Roger B. Chaffee, Philip K. Chapman, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, R. Walter Cunningham, Charles M. Duke Jr., Donn F. Eisele, Anthony W. England, Joe H. Engle, Ronald E. Evans, Theodore C. Freeman, Edward G. Givens Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Fred W. Haise Jr., Karl G. Henize, James B. Irwin, Joseph P. Kerwin, William B. Lenoir, Don L. Lind, John A. Llewellyn, Jack R. Lousma, James A. Lovell Jr., Thomas K. Mattingly Jr., Bruce McCandless II, James A. McDivitt, F. Curtis Michel, Edgar D. Mitchell, Story Musgrave, Brian T. O ’ Leary, Robert A. Parker, William R. Pogue, Stuart A. Roosa, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Russell L. Schweickart, David R. Scott, Elliot See, Alan B. Shepard Jr., Donald K. Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford, John L. Swigert Jr., William E. Thornton, Paul J. Weitz, Edward H. White, Clifton C. Williams Jr., Alfred M. Worden, and John W. Young.

The planetarium holds a historical telescope that once belonged to John H. Darling.

Texas Instruments ' co-founders Cecil H. Green and Eugene McDermott donated a math and science quadrangle, the main library, the greenhouse, the planetarium and the observatory.

As he made plans for the new Taliesin, Wright also got on paper his conception of a cathedral of steel and glass to house a congregation of all faiths, and the idea for a planetarium with a sloping ramp.

* Neave Planetarium An interactive planetarium and stardome with realistic movement of stars and the planets.

The first planetarium was invented by the ancient Chinese, and the official astronomers were paid to keep track of the solar, lunar, and planetary motions.

People who are interested in astronomy should visit the Observatory Geschwister Herrschel on the Lindener Mountain or the small planetarium inside of the Bismarck School.

* The Quadrangle, a group of five museums in Springfield, Massachusetts, including the United States ' first planetarium ( 1931 ,) and the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden.

Rock Bridge High School has a planetarium ( Room 303 ) where the school conducts star shows for all ages as well as students at RBHS and other schools as well.

Today there is also a planetarium in the park.

The funnel can have a transparent top and visible cues such as the direction of sunlight may be controlled using mirrors or the positions of the stars simulated in a planetarium.

In February 2005 construction work began on a £ 15 million redevelopment project to provide a new planetarium and additional display galleries and educational facilities.

Les Champs Libres is a building on Esplanade Charles de Gaulle designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc that houses the Brittany Museum ( Musée de Bretagne ), regional library Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole on six levels and an Espace des Sciences science centre with a planetarium.

* Musée de Bretagne ( Museum of Brittany ) at the Champs Libres, together with the ' espace of sciences ' and a planetarium.

* Portions of this article are from Jason Harris ' " Astroinfo " which is distributed with KStars, a desktop planetarium for Linux / KDE.

It includes the third largest planetarium in the United States and an IMAX theater.

KStars is a planetarium program using the KDE Platform for Unix-like computer operating systems.

In 1482 he wrote a Commentum planetarium in theoricas Georgii Purbachii — a commentary on Georg von Peuerbach's text, New Theories of the Planets — published in Milan by his pupil, Jan Otto de Kraceusae.

Downtown is the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, a " hands-on " museum aimed largely at children ; it has a planetarium and a Challenger Learning Center.

Odessa District Court building and Church of the monastery of St. Panteleimon ( church consecrated in 1895 ; used as a planetarium from 1961 – 1991 ).

Inside a planetarium projection hall.

A planetarium ( plural planetariums or planetaria ) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.

The term planetarium is sometimes used generically to describe other devices which illustrate the solar system, such as a computer simulation or an orrery.

The term planetarian is used to describe a member of the professional staff of a planetarium.

The Mark I projector installed in the Deutsches Museum in 1923 was the world's first planetarium projector.

Archimedes is attributed with possessing a primitive planetarium device that could predict the movements of the Sun and the Moon and the planets.

The oldest, still working planetarium can be found in the Dutch town Franeker.