Monthly Archives: November 2022
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As part of the Planetarium Centennial Celebrations, the IPS History of the Planetarium Working Group will be publishing a book provisionally titled 100 Years of Planetaria, 100 Stories: People, Places, and Devices. It will be a highly illustrated and readable book with 100 stories centered on a variety of objects […]
Bochum, October 2022 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of a great invention: the planetarium. In 1923, the Carl Zeiss company completed the first planetarium projector; in 1925, the first public projection planetarium opened in Munich. The International Planetarium Society (IPS), the Gesellschaft Deutschsprachiger Planetarien e.V. (GDP) and the Carl Zeiss […]