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2002: The planetarium is briefly seen in the film Men in Black II starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. 2003: The planetarium features briefly in the film Eloise at the Plaza starring Sofia Vassilieva and Julie Andrews. 2011: The planetarium is used as part of an investigation in the White Collar episode "Where There's a Will" (S03E02).
In contrast to the 1959 concept, Kaelber's design placed the Strasenburgh Planetarium on the east side of the original Museum building. The Planetarium building was said to resemble a snail shell or a spiral nebula. [5] Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony on March 16, 1967. [6] The building was dedicated on September 14, 1968.
Inside a planetarium projection hall. (Belgrade Planetarium, Serbia) Inside the same hall during projection.(Belgrade Planetarium, Serbia)A planetarium (pl.: 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.
Sky-gazers can look forward to catching glimpses of four bright planets at the same time in the night sky. Venus and Saturn will appear in the southwest, Jupiter will gleam overhead, and Mars will ...
The Vanderbilt Museum is located in Centerport on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, USA. Named for William Vanderbilt II (1878–1944), it is located on his former 43-acre (17 ha) estate, Eagle's Nest.
Phillip Stern, a former lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium and director of the Bridgeport Planetarium, develops the first programmable planetarium, the Apollo model. Unable to finance this himself, he has a small audio-visual firm on Long Island, Viewlex, manufacture and market the planetarium, mostly to schools. Later this is joined by the ...
A dark-sky preserve status enables high-quality astronomical observation in Paranal Observatory. [1] A dark-sky preserve (DSP) is an area, usually surrounding a park or observatory, that restricts or reduces light pollution or maintains and protects naturally dark night skies. Different terms have been used to describe these areas as national ...
The Kopernik Observatory & Science Center (KOSC), is a public observatory in Vestal, New York opened to the public on June 16, 1974, by the Kopernik Society of Broome County to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: MikoĊaj Kopernik) in 1973.