Planetariums

A resurgence of space and space exploration had re-entered the public consciousness largely due to the accomplishment of Tesla founder Elon Musk; the CEO of SpaceX.  And with familiar liaison to the stars Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson who occasionally makes a public appearance to help generate interests and inform the public at large with the on-goings of space exploration and how we should view the final frontier with fresh 2018 eyes.

I had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Natural History in New York City, where the Hayden Planetarium resides; and Neil deGrasse Tyson is currently the director and curator of.

Outside Hayden Theatre

 The Planetarium displays the most accurate depiction of our galaxy, by charting our stars and giving a detail account of where we are, and what is happening for, both in and beyond our solar system, in one of the most remarkable motion picture captured simulation of space that is simply hard to rival.

The Hayden Planetarium was opened to the public in 1958 and reopened in 2000, where it remains today available to the public with daily visits.  In Ontario, The McLaughlin planetarium which opened in 1968 was the premiere source to view the stars in an immersive avenue until 1995 when it was abruptly closed due to government cut backs.  In that time a Toronto college campus – Seneca College had a planetarium which had operated for nearly thirty years and had closed shortly thereafter; re-named after Canada’s first female astronaut Roberta Bondar, in 1982,

Griffith Observatory, LA

Now there exists many other planetariums in cities across our planet, largely as part of a university or  research facility, but there are remarkable locations like in Alexandria, Egypt at the Arab Academy of Science and Technology, The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, famed for a slew of television and Film landmark appearances ,and in Japan Nagoya City Science Museum, Nagoya which hosts the biggest planetarium in the world. In which the public can still view the stars and take in the scope and vastness of space.

In Toronto, excluding the Ontario scienc

Museum of Natural History, NYC

e centre which is merely an Imax theatre,

The only currently operating planetarium resides in the University of Toronto Campus, a 25 seat planetarium that is open for small gatherings and periodic public openings or screenings.

There is a mobile planetarium in Ontario where a space journalist and astrophotographer take a portable dome show of the stars and planets on the road as they visit seniors and children in a journey through the cosmos.