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A planetarium (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.[1]

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  1. 175 relations: Acoustics, Adam Walker (inventor), Adaptation (eye), AHHAA, Aluminium, American Museum of Natural History, Ancient history, Antikythera mechanism, Archimedes, Armand Spitz, Armillary sphere, Astrarium, Astrolabe, Astronomical clock, Astronomical object, Astronomy, Athens, Atmospheric pressure, Axial precession, Baths of Diocletian, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Black level, California Academy of Sciences, Campanus of Novara, Canopus, Carl Zeiss AG, Cathode-ray tube, Celestial cartography, Celestial navigation, Celestial sphere, Color space, Comet, Computer, Conjunction (astronomy), Constellation, Contrast ratio, Copenhagen, Denmark, Deutsches Museum, Diameter, Digistar, Digital data, Digital light processing, Dodecahedron, Dome, Dow Planetarium, Dumbbell, Dynamic range, Earl of Orrery, Earth, ... Expand index (125 more) »

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Acoustics

Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.

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Adam Walker (inventor)

Adam Walker (1730/31 – 11 February 1821) was an English writer and inventor.

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Adaptation (eye)

In visual physiology, adaptation is the ability of the retina of the eye to adjust to various levels of light.

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AHHAA

Science Centre AHHAA (Estonian: Teaduskeskus AHHAA) is a science centre located in Tartu, Estonia, and is currently the largest science centre in the Baltic states.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Ancient history

Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.

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Antikythera mechanism

The Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.

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Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.

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Armand Spitz

Armand Neustadter Spitz (July 7, 1904 – April 14, 1971) was an American planetarium designer.

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Armillary sphere

An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centered on Earth or the Sun, that represent lines of celestial longitude and latitude and other astronomically important features, such as the ecliptic.

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Astrarium

An astrarium, also called a planetarium, is a medieval astronomical clock made in the 14th century by Italian engineer and astronomer Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio.

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Astrolabe

An astrolabe (ἀστρολάβος,; ٱلأَسْطُرلاب; ستاره‌یاب) is an astronomical instrument dating to ancient times.

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Astronomical clock

An astronomical clock, horologium, or orloj is a clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the Sun, Moon, zodiacal constellations, and sometimes major planets.

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Astronomical object

An astronomical object, celestial object, stellar object or heavenly body is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists within the observable universe.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.

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Axial precession

In astronomy, axial precession is a gravity-induced, slow, and continuous change in the orientation of an astronomical body's rotational axis.

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Baths of Diocletian

The Baths of Diocletian (Latin: Thermae Diocletiani, Italian: Terme di Diocleziano) were public baths in ancient Rome.

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Latin, 'Library of Alexandria'; Maktabat al-’Iskandariyya) (BA) is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Black level

Video black level is defined as the level of brightness at the darkest (black) part of a visual image or the level of brightness at which no light is emitted from a screen, resulting in a pure black screen.

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California Academy of Sciences

The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens.

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Campanus of Novara

Campanus of Novara (1220 – 1296) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and physician who is best known for his work on Euclid's ''Elements''.

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Canopus

Canopus is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina and the second-brightest star in the night sky.

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Carl Zeiss AG

Carl Zeiss AG, branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss.

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Cathode-ray tube

A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.

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Celestial cartography

Celestial cartography, uranography, astrography or star cartography is the aspect of astronomy and branch of cartography concerned with mapping stars, galaxies, and other astronomical objects on the celestial sphere.

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Celestial navigation

Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the surface of the Earth without relying solely on estimated positional calculations, commonly known as dead reckoning.

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Celestial sphere

In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an abstract sphere that has an arbitrarily large radius and is concentric to Earth.

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Color space

A color space is a specific organization of colors.

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Comet

A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Conjunction (astronomy)

In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects or spacecraft appear to be close to each other in the sky.

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Constellation

A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.

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Contrast ratio

The contrast ratio (CR) is a property of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest shade (white) to that of the darkest shade (black) that the system is capable of producing.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum (German Museum, officially Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (English: German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology)) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 125,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.

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Diameter

In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.

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Digistar

Digistar is the first computer graphics-based planetarium projection and content system.

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Digital data

Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.

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Digital light processing

Digital light processing (DLP) is a set of chipsets based on optical micro-electro-mechanical technology that uses a digital micromirror device.

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Dodecahedron

In geometry, a dodecahedron or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces.

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Dome

A dome is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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Dow Planetarium

The Dow Planetarium (later renamed the Montreal Planetarium) is a decommissioned public planetarium located at Chaboillez Square just South-East of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Dumbbell

The dumbbell, a type of free weight, is a piece of equipment used in weight training.

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Dynamic range

Dynamic range (abbreviated DR, DNR, or DYR) is the ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume.

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Earl of Orrery

Earl of Orrery is a title in the Peerage of Ireland that has been united with the earldom of Cork since 1753.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Ecliptic

The ecliptic or ecliptic plane is the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun.

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Educational entertainment

Educational entertainment, also referred to by the portmanteau edutainment, is media designed to educate through entertainment.

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Eidouranion

An eidouranion is a kind of orrery that combined mechanical movement with a method of back projection.

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Eise Eisinga

Eise Jeltes Eisinga (21 February 1744 – 27 August 1828) was a Frisian amateur astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Dutch Republic.

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Eise Eisinga Planetarium

The Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium (Koninklijk Eise Eisinga Planetarium) is an 18th-century orrery in Franeker, Friesland, Netherlands.

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Equatorium

An equatorium (plural, equatoria) is an astronomical calculating instrument.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Evans & Sutherland

Evans & Sutherland is an American computer graphics firm founded in 1968 by David Evans and Ivan Sutherland.

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Fatigue (material)

In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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Fifth Crusade

The Fifth Crusade (September 1217 - August 29, 1221) was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by al-Adil, brother of Saladin.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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Fisheye lens

A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image.

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Franeker

Franeker (Frjentsjer) is one of the eleven historical cities of Friesland and capital of the municipality of Waadhoeke.

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Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II (German: Friedrich; Italian: Federico; Latin: Fridericus; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225.

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Friesland

Friesland (official Fryslân), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part.

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Fulldome

Fulldome refers to immersive dome-based video display environments.

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Geocentric model

In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, often exemplified specifically by the Ptolemaic system) is a superseded description of the Universe with Earth at the center.

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German reunification

German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.

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Glass floor

Glass floors are made with transparent glass when it is useful to view something from above or below; whereas translucent glass is used when there is no need to view through.

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Globe of Gottorf

The Globe of Gottorf is a 17th-century, large, walk-in globe of the Earth and the celestial sphere.

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Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, United States.

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Hamburg Planetarium

Hamburg Planetarium is one of the world's oldest, and one of Europe's most visited planetariums.

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Heidelberg University

Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory

Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl) is a historic astronomical observatory located near the summit of the Königstuhl hill in the city of Heidelberg in Germany.

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Heliocentrism

Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.

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Hellenistic period

In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.

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Holy Roman Emperor

The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum, Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period (Imperator Germanorum, Roman-German emperor), was the ruler and head of state of the Holy Roman Empire.

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IMAX

IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations. Planetarium and IMAX are Theatres.

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Incandescent light bulb

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a filament that is heated until it glows.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Inflatable

An inflatable is an object that can be inflated with a gas, usually with air, but hydrogen, helium, and nitrogen are also used.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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International Planetarium Society

The International Planetarium Society, Inc. (IPS) is the global association of planetarium professionals. Planetarium and International Planetarium Society are planetaria.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jena

Jena is a city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia.

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Joystick

A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.

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Kerala Science and Technology Museum

Kerala Science and Technology Museum is an autonomous institution established by Government of Kerala, India, in 1984, as a center for popularisation of science and scientific temper among the general public, especially among the young generation.

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Kyiv Planetarium

Kyiv Planetarium (previously Republican Planetarium; Київський планетарій) in Kyiv, Ukraine is one of the largest planetaria in former Soviet states. Planetarium and Kyiv Planetarium are planetaria.

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Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.

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Liberty Science Center

Liberty Science Center is an interactive science museum and learning center located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.

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Light pollution

Light pollution is the presence of any unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it.

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Line art

Line art or line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight lines or curved lines placed against a background (usually plain).

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Liquid crystal on silicon

Liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS or LCOS) is a miniaturized reflective active-matrix liquid-crystal display or "microdisplay" using a liquid crystal layer on top of a silicon backplane.

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Liquid-crystal display

A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers.

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List of observatory software

The following is a list of astronomical observatory software.

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List of planetariums

This entry is a list of permanent planetariums across the world. Planetarium and list of planetariums are planetaria.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Max Wolf

Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography.

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Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

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Minolta

was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Museum of Science (Boston)

The Museum of Science (MoS) is a nature and science museum and indoor zoological establishment located in Science Park, a plot of land in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, spanning the Charles River.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Nebula

A nebula (cloud, fog;: nebulae, nebulæ, or nebulas) is a distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral, or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Night sky

The night sky is the nighttime appearance of celestial objects like stars, planets, and the Moon, which are visible in a clear sky between sunset and sunrise, when the Sun is below the horizon.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events.

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Occultation

An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them.

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Old Hansen Planetarium

The Old Hansen Planetarium is a three-story building located at 15 South State Street in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Opposition (astronomy)

In positional astronomy, two astronomical objects are said to be in opposition when they are on opposite sides of the celestial sphere, as observed from a given body (usually Earth).

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Orbit

In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.

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Orion (constellation)

Orion is a prominent set of stars visible during winter in the northern celestial hemisphere.

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Orrery

An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model.

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Oskar von Miller

Oskar Franz Xaver Miller, since 1875 von Miller (7 May 1855 – 9 April 1934), was a German engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, a large museum of technology and science in Munich.

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Outer space

Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.

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Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is a natural history museum located in Chicago, Illinois, and operated by the Chicago Academy of Sciences.

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Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.

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Planet

A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.

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Planetarium projector

A planetarium projector, also known as a star projector, is a device used to project images of celestial objects onto the dome in a planetarium.

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Planetarium Science Center

The Planetarium Science Centre (PSC) is a department in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina located in Alexandria, Egypt. Planetarium and Planetarium Science Center are planetaria.

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Planetarium software

Planetarium software is application software that allows a user to simulate the celestial sphere at any time of day, especially at night, on a computer.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.

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Polymath

A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Prague astronomical clock

The Prague astronomical clock or Prague Orloj is a medieval astronomical clock attached to the Old Town Hall in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

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Primary school

A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).

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Proprioception

Proprioception is the sense of self-movement, force, and body position.

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Real-time computing

Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response.

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Rose Center for Earth and Space

The Rose Center for Earth and Space is a part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

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Rudolf Straubel

Rudolf Straubel (* June 16, 1864 in Kleinschmalkalden; † December 2, 1943 in Jena) was a German physicist, scientist, top-manager, inventor and sponsor of community.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Sandnes

Sandnes is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Silhouette

A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.

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Sirius

Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Slide projector

A slide projector is an optical device for projecting enlarged images of photographic slides onto a screen.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Space Race

The Space Race (Космическая гонка) was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.

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Space-themed music

Space-themed music is any music, from any genre or style, with lyrics or titles relating to outer space or spaceflight.

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Sphere

A sphere (from Greek) is a geometrical object that is a three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle.

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Star

A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity.

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Star of Bethlehem

The Star of Bethlehem, or Christmas Star, appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew chapter 2 where "wise men from the East" (Magi) are inspired by the star to travel to Jerusalem.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Sunrise

Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning.

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Sunset

Sunset (or sundown) is the disappearance of the Sun below the horizon of the Earth (or any other astronomical object in the Solar System) due to its rotation.

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Tartu

Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn.

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The Science Factory

Science Factory (Vitenfabrikken) is a museum and science center located at Sandnes, in Rogaland, Norway.

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The Slate Group

The Slate Group, legally The Slate Group, LLC, is an American online publishing entity established in June 2008 by Graham Holdings Company.

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Theater (structure)

A theater, or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts, and musical concerts are presented. Planetarium and theater (structure) are Theatres.

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Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram, commonly shortened to TVM or known by its former name Trivandrum, is the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala.

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Torquetum

The torquetum or turquet is a medieval astronomical instrument designed by persons unknown to take and convert measurements made in three sets of coordinates: horizon, equatorial, and ecliptic.

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Tycho Brahe Planetarium

Planetarium (formerly Tycho Brahe Planetarium) is located at the southern end of the lake Skt. Jørgens Sø in Copenhagen, Denmark. Planetarium and Tycho Brahe Planetarium are planetaria.

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Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

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Vector graphics

Vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves and polygons.

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Vega

Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra.

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Ventilation (architecture)

Ventilation is the intentional introduction of outdoor air into a space.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Vilnius University

Vilnius University (Lithuanian: Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.

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Visual acuity

Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision, but technically rates an animal's ability to recognize small details with precision.

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Wallace Walter Atwood

Wallace Walter Atwood (October 1, 1872 – July 24, 1949) was an American geographer and geologist.

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Walther Bauersfeld

Walther Bauersfeld (23 January 1879 – 28 October 1959) was a German engineer.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Zeiss projector

A Zeiss projector is one of a line of planetarium projectors manufactured by the Carl Zeiss Company.

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Zeiss-Planetarium Jena

The Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena, Germany, is the oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world. Planetarium and Zeiss-Planetarium Jena are glass engineering and science.

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3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3-D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering digital images, usually 2D images but sometimes 3D images.

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See also

Observation

Planetaria

Theatres

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarium

Also known as Digital laser planetarium, Digital planetarium, Planetaria, Planetariums.

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