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Morehead Planetarium - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Oso, Coronagraph, Heliostat, Observatory, Orrery, Reflector, Refractor, Spectrograph, Spectroheliograph, Spectrohelioscope, Spectroscope, Telescope |
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The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. First opened in 1949, the planetarium was used to train Gemini and Apollo program astronauts in celestial navigation. Until the late 1990s, it contained one of the largest working Copernican orreries in the world. The facilty was donated to the University by UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus John Motley Morehead III.
Its star theater features a Carl Zeiss Model VI Planetarium Projector, installed in 1969. It is one of five Zeiss Model VI's currently in use in the United States.
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is scheduled to undergo renovations in 2006. The renovations will include building expansion, a parking deck, a new star theater and projector, and new exhibit halls.
The Morehead Center has monthly skywatching sessions.
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