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Hayden Planetarium. Sky Theater.; Planetarium; American Museum-Hayden Planetarium; Sky Theater; Planetarium Sky Theater
birth: 1935
death: 1997
Permanent exhibition. Opened October 3, 1935 and closed January 5, 1997. Located on Floor 2, Section 18. The Hayden Planetarium's Sky Theater at the American Museum of Natural History was the feature attraction of the Hayden Planetarium and presented the Museum's famous space shows. The dome had a diameter of 75 feet and seated 734 visitors. From its beginnings to its final shows, the Sky Theater employed three different Zeiss projectors, which could reproduce about 9,000 stars. (1, 1935, p. 4; 2, 1972, p. 37; 3, 1967). By 1982, the projection system was fully automated and controlled by computers as opposed to a human lecturer (4, 1982). It was demolished in the late 1990s and replaced by the new Hayden Planetarium at the Museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space (5, 1997).
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