Friday, 24 May 2013

STARDOME - Observatory, Planetarium

Not far from City Center of Auckland, near One Tree Hill is situated remarcable place which is called Stardome. In March 1967 the Observatory opened without a Planetarium, as at this stage the Auckland Museum was operating a Planetarium which had been donated by the Farmers Trading Company in 1958.


The building of observatory isn't so big, however it contain a lot of interesting stuff about space journeys, history of developing space technologies and exactly planetarium. As you can see on picture, there is a lot of layouts of planets and space ships. The stand where you can find out your weight on different planets and compare result with your weight on Earth. Another one is information stand about firts launch of space ship. Actually, there is approximately 4 or 5 events which were described.



The most exciting entertainment which you can find there is planetarium. It is the main goal if you want to visit Stardome. A performance which you watch is thrilling history of universe and spectacular explanetion of star map in night sky.

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