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Hayden Planetarium, circa 1935–45. The center is an extensive reworking of the former Hayden Planetarium, whose first projector, dedicated in 1935, had 2 successors previous to the current one. The original Hayden Planetarium was founded in 1933 with a donation by banker and philanthropist Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co.
The Charles Hayden Planetarium was opened in 1958. Many more expansions continued into the 1970s and 1980s. In 1999, The Computer Museum in Boston closed and became part of the Museum of Science, integrating some of its educational displays, although most of the historical artifacts were moved to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View ...
The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is the most visited planetarium in the world. [ 1 ] This entry is a list of permanent planetariums across the world.
The Digital Universe Atlas has spun off a commercial-grade planetarium platform from SCISS called Uniview that was featured in the White House star party on October 7, 2009. The Atlas database and Partiview interface is compatible with professional planetarium software such as Evans & Sutherland's Digistar and Sky-Skan's DigitalSky 2.
The planetarium was eventually funded by and named after Charles Hayden. The Hayden Planetarium opened on October 3, 1935. While working for the museum and planetarium, Fisher also made several expeditions to observe astronomical events. He led an expedition to Peru to observe the solar eclipse of June 8, 1937. For previous eclipses Fisher flew ...
Kenneth Linn Franklin (March 25, 1923 – June 18, 2007) was an American astronomer and educator. Franklin was the chief scientist at the Hayden Planetarium from 1956 to 1984 and was co-credited with discovering radio waves originating on Jupiter, the first detection of signals from another planet.
The Amateur Astronomers Association of New York was established in 1927. Its original bulletin was The Amateur Astronomer which began publication in 1929, was succeeded in 1935 by the Hayden Planetarium's The Sky, and then the latter publication was merged into Sky and Telescope in 1941.
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