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18434 Mikesandras

Sandras was at various times curator of the science center's planetarium and observatory in Kenner, Louisiana, at the Louis Roussell Planetarium, and at the time of his death from complications of diabetes as manager of the Gretna Observatory.

61400 Voxandreae

It is named after Andreae Deman, a planetarium program speaker for the Von Braun Astronomical Society in Huntsville, Alabama.

8905 Bankakuko

It is named after Kakuko Ban, a member of the staff at the planetarium section of the Hiroshima Children's Museum.

Architecture of St. Louis

Then into the 1940s and 1950s a certain sub-genre of St. Louis modernism emerged, with the locally important Harris Armstrong, and a series of daring modern civic landmarks like Gyo Obata's Planetarium, the geodesic-dome Climatron, and the main terminal building at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

Armagh Planetarium

In the same year Patrick Moore was appointed as Director of the Planetarium to oversee its construction.

Space Odyssey, created in Armagh in the 1980s and scripted by Ian Ridpath, was the world’s first ever completely interactive planetarium show.

Centered in the Universe

The 33-minute planetarium program utilizes a Zeiss Universarium star projector and an innovative laser video projection system developed by Evans & Sutherland to create an immersive environment.

Dionysis Simopoulos

He has written over 250 Planetarium show scripts, two sets of scripts (30 and 24 episodes) for special Video Lessons on astronomy and space science (for the Greek Ministry of Education ), a series of four CD-ROMs on astronomy, and has delivered more than 500 lectures on science and Astrophysics all over Greece.

Dronrijp

Painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born in the house at 2 Dûbelestreek, Eise Eisinga, famous for his planetarium, at 13 Tsjerkebuorren.

Ekkamai BTS Station

Bangkok Planetarium, the oldest planetarium in the country is next to the station within the Science Center for Education.

Everest Science Center Nepal

In addition to the Center's Botany, Zoology and Agriculture departments, it is home to Nepal's first Planetarium.

Fabien Chéreau

Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French Research Engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

Geodesium

The music of Geodesium has been featured in planetarium shows narrated by well-known screen personalities including James Earl Jones, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Patrick Stewart.

Hastings, Nebraska

The museum currently houses the Lied Super Screen Theatre, McDonald Planetarium, and local and regional exhibits including the largest diorama of whooping and Sandhill cranes in the world.

Hayden Planetarium

The Hayden Planetarium (often called "The Hayden Sphere" or "The Great Sphere") is a public planetarium, part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, currently directed by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Hempfield Area High School

Beyond the normal school day, the planetarium serves varied community groups including the P.T.A., Boy Scouts, and non-public school students with programs of current interest and sky dramas.

Il mondo della luna

The Gotham Chamber Opera presented Il mondo della luna at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City in January 2010, transforming the planetarium into an opera house using the 180-degree dome and projections courtesy of NASA; the director was Diane Paulus.

Italo Gismondi

A trained architect, he carried out numerous projects, including a plan of the Imperial forums in Rome in 1933; the restoration of the northwest portion of the Baths of Diocletian (1927) and also work on the Planetarium of the same complex.

Johannesburg Planetarium

The Hamburg City Council, however, imposed as its conditions that the planetarium's projector be fully modernised in the Zeiss factory at Oberkochen, and that Johannesburg would in due course have a new planetarium built for Hamburg.

Mazlan Othman

Her interest in public education was rewarded in 1990 when Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, a strong supporter of education and science, placed her in charge of the Planetarium Division of the Prime Minister's Department, overseeing development of Planetarium Negara, Malaysia's national planetarium in Kuala Lumpur.

Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society

(In 2007 the conference was held in October, jointly with two other regional planetarium associations.) In addition, regional meetings are held under the name 'Armand Spitz Memorial Regional Conference'.

Minnesota Planetarium

To provide programming to a state without a public planetarium, the Minnesota Planetarium Society in the fall of 2006 purchased a revolutionary combination of technology providing sensational new views of the known universe as previously only displayed in large planetariums such as the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.

Governor Jesse Ventura vetoed over 300 million dollars for capital bonding projects - including $9.5 million for the Planetarium.

Montreal Planetarium

President of the board of directors of Dow Breweries, Gendron convinced Dow to create a world-class planetarium in Montreal, as part of the Canadian Centennial celebrations.

Mystic Pizza

The most notable scenes that take place in Mystic are at the Mystic Seaport planetarium and at the drawbridge, where Jojo gets angry that Bill changed the name of his boat.

Nico's Last Concert: Fata Morgana

The concert (organized by musician Lutz Ulbrich) took place at the planetarium of the Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte.

Old Hansen Planetarium

Instead of simply demolishing the dome, however, it was systematically dismantled and donated to the Zion's Gateway to the Stars planetarium in Orderville, Utah.

Osaka Science Museum

The two secondary exhibits, both available separately from the primary exhibit, are a planetarium, which has a dome with a radius of 26.5 meters, the fifth largest in the world, and an Omnimax theatre, which projects the images of the heavens.

Oswald Thomas

In 1974 the place in the Prater where Vienna's current planetarium had been erected was named in his honor, and since 2004 the asteroid 29427 Oswaldthomas bears his name.

Pierre Gendron

As president of the board of directors of Dow Breweries, Gendron convinced the brewer to fund a planetarium in Montreal, overseeing the creation of the Dow Planetarium.

Planetarium projector

Companies that make (or have made) planetarium projectors include Carl Zeiss Jena (Germany), Spitz (US), Goto and Minolta (Japan), Evans & Sutherland (US), and Ohira Tech (Japan).

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

There is also a special exhibition of a full Chinese temple that was used by 19th-century Chinese tin miners, a working planetarium, and displays related to Launceston's industrial environment and railway workshops.

Saint Louis Science Center

The Planetarium was designed by Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum with a unique shape (Obata was later tasked in the 1970s with designing the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.).

In 1991, a major expansion increased the size of the facility seven-fold, adding a main building and Omnimax theater across Interstate 64 from the Planetarium.

Staerkel Planetarium

The planetarium also occasionally hosts live music performances from avant-garde groups such as Stars of the Lid.

Strasenburgh Planetarium

An architectural design by Robert Napier, then a student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, included a detached planetarium building at the corner of East Avenue and Goodman Street, just west of the main Museum building.

Taylor Range

Mount Coot-tha, on which there is a lookout, botanical gardens, a planetarium and television towers, is the highest peak of the Taylor Range at 287 m.

Thomas W. Hamilton

Hamilton, planetarium director and author of "Useful Star Names" and "The Brick Moon"

Ulysse Nardin

Dr. Oechslin then followed the Astrolabium up with two other astronomical watches: in 1988 the Planetarium Copernicus (named after the stargazing theaters called planetariums and of astronomer Copernicus) and in 1992 the Tellurium Johannes Kepler (named after the element tellurium and astronomer Johannes Kepler).

Voyage to the Outer Planets

Voyage to the Outer Planets was an early multimedia experiment combining Omnimax film, 70 mm film and Planetarium special effects.

Walther Bauersfeld

Bauersfeld remained with the core firm in Jena, East Germany, where after 1953 he developed the ZKP-1 (Zeisskleinplanetarium=Zeiss Small Planetarium #1).

Władysław Dziewulski

The crater Dziewulski on the Moon is named after him, as is the Wladyslaw Dziewulski Planetarium in Toruń.


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