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Planetarium Sheet Saint Louis Science Center
City of St. Louis planetarium

USA , MISSOURI , SAINT LOUIS

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Type: Science Center
Opened in 1963

Address: 5050 Oakland Avenue - St. Louis, MO 63110
Country: USA
Email:

Website: https://www.slsc.org/explore/mcdonnell-planetarium/the-zeiss-ix/
Website 2: https://www.slsc.org/planetariumbow/

Team
Ronald L. Sutherland (1971~1980)
John Wharton (1984-1992-2017 retired)
Johann Galikin (1984~2015)
John Lakey (2003~2017)
Anna Green (2017),

408 seats

Dome of 18.3m

Technical
Optical system GOTO : Saturn-(L-1)
Seat: Avarte Funktus 544XX - Planetarium

Facilities

Operation

History
- April 16, 1963: 18.3m/400 seats/GOTO L-1 $175,000 projector (designed by Gyo Obata: Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK)),
- 1980: Digistar I
- 1985: Renovation ($3.2 million), new name, 228s,
- June 22, 2001: 24.4m/Zeiss Universarium IX ($10million)
- Sept. 2016: Fiber optics (Universarium IX)
- June 2017: Fulldome
- Sept. 2017: New lamp (LED)
- Oct. 2017: Pleiades National Planetariums meeting
- April 2023: 60 years!

Comments
be careful: do not confuse it with the Imax located right next door since 1991 (see 3505)

Latitude: 38°37'52" N - Longitude: 90°16'15" W - Altitude: 155m
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