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Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Exterior of the Burke Baker Planetarium. Burke Baker Planetarium presents a range of science and astronomy shows. As of 2016, the planetarium is equipped with the Digistar 5 fulldome projection system. It is one of the first 8k planetariums in the United States. [13]
BASF Planetarium, Center for the Arts and Sciences, Clute; Blakemore Planetarium at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland; Burke Baker Planetarium at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston; Center for Earth and Space Science Education, Tyler Junior College, Tyler – most advanced planetarium in the state of Texas
He worked at the Houston Museum of Natural Science as a natural science teacher in 1963, then as curator at the Burke Baker Planetarium in 1965. [1] In 1970, Yramategui was traveling to view a comet when he suffered a flat tire. He was robbed of his astronomy equipment and killed by a juvenile.
Carolyn Sumners (born 1948) has taught astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science's Burke Baker Planetarium since 1972. It was her inspiration to move a meter-class telescope to the George Observatory in 1989 for educating the public under the stars.
Armand Bayou runs from its headwaters in Pasadena for about ten miles to the southeast, to its mouth at Mud Lake, near Taylor Lake Village. [2] The 59-square-mile Armand Bayou Watershed includes 89 miles of natural streams, which drain several settlements in southeast Harris County, including Deer Park, La Porte, Pasadena, and Taylor Lake Village.
Imiloa Planetarium first Stereoscopic show is "Dawn of the Space Age" produced by Mirage IIID. 2008: July: Sky-Skan demonstrates Definiti 8K: a 60,000 lumen, 8k x 8k fulldome projection system at IPS 2008 at Adler Planetarium in Chicago rivaling image quality of large-format film (system subsequently opens at Beijing Planetarium) 2008
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 U.S. Space & Rocket Center is the resting place of Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey who flew on a suborbital test flight of the PGM-19 Jupiter rocket on May 28, 1959. Baker lived in a facility at the center from 1971 until she died of kidney failure in November 1984. [31]