Hamburg Planetarium

Hamburg Planetarium
Planetarium Hamburg
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Established 30 April 1930[1]
Location Otto-Wels-Straße 1
22303 Hamburg, Germany
Coordinates 53°35′50″N 10°00′32″E / 53.59722°N 10.00889°ECoordinates: 53°35′50″N 10°00′32″E / 53.59722°N 10.00889°E
Type planetarium
Visitors 300,000 per year[2]
Director Thomas W. Kraupe
Owner Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Public transit access Borgweg
Hudtwalckerstraße
Website planetarium-hamburg.de
Hamburg Planetarium
Universarium Mark IX projector (2007)

Hamburg Planetarium is one of the world's oldest, and one of Europe's most visited planetariums. It is located in the district of Winterhude, Hamburg, Germany, and housed in a former water tower at the center of Hamburg Stadtpark.

History

Planetarium Hamburg opened to the public on April 30, 1930. It is situated in an Art-Deco water tower, designed by Oskar Menzel and built between 1912 and 1915. However, it was only used as such until 1924, and subsequently converted to a planetarium. At the opening of the planetarium in 1930, a Zeiss Universarium Mark II projector, already acquired by the City of Hamburg in 1925, became the planetarium's centerpiece. Subsequent Zeiss projectors were a Mark IV in 1957, a Mark VI in 1983 and a Universarium IX since 2006.

In 2011 Planetarium Hamburg became one of the first ESO Outreach Partner Organisations (EOPO) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).[3] The same year, Planetarium Hamburg became the first planetarium in Europe to use fulldome 3D-Stereoscopic technology.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Planetarium Hamburg - Heaven on Earth". planetarium-hamburg.de. Planetarium Hamburg. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Planetarium Hamburg". hamburg.de (in German). Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "ESO Outreach Partner Organisations". eso.org. European Southern Observatory. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

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