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Hayden Planetarium - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Oso, Coronagraph, Heliostat, Observatory, Orrery, Reflector, Refractor, Spectrograph, Spectroheliograph, Spectrohelioscope, Spectroscope, Telescope |
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Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to the famous American Museum of Natural History. Part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space, the recently renovated institution is well known for its two main attractions included in the Hayden Sphere. The top half is the occupied by the unique Zeiss Star Projector, the most powerful virtual reality simulator in the world. In the bottom half of the Sphere there is the Big Bang, which transfers the visitors to the moment when the Universe was created.
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Example Usage of Planetarium |
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saune: Virtual Planetarium (free, open source) http://www.stellarium.org/ |
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SketchTC: @rjd2 Thine Planetarium is insane! 3rd time I am playing it in a row. |
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sarahloveslife: At the Planetarium with Kayla for astronomy....pretty exciting... :) |
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