Peter Harrison Planetarium
- Peter Harrison Planetarium
The Peter Harrison Planetarium is a 120-seat digital laser planetarium, situated in Greenwich Park, London and is part of the National Maritime Museum. It opened on May 25, 2007.[ [http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART47776.html New Planetarium Opens At Greenwich Royal Observatory] ] ]The planetarium uses Digistar 3 software with blue, red and green lasers and grating light valve (GLV) technology to create a 4,000 pixel strip. This strip is swept to produce a 5,000 by 4,000 pixel image, refreshed 60 times per second. The image is projected through a fisheye lens onto the dome of the planetarium. [cite journal
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The planetarium is housed inside a 45-ton bronze-clad truncated cone, tilted at 51.5o to the horizontal (the latitude of Greenwich), and standing on the prime meridian. [ [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.21720 "Reopening of the new Royal Observatory, Greenwich"] ; National Maritime Museum press release; May 2007] It was built as part of £17.7m re-development of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and funded with a grant from the Peter Harrison Foundation.[ [ [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.20578 "£3m pledge by Peter Harrison Foundation secures re-development of Royal Observatory, Greenwich"] ; National Maritime Museum press release; November 2005] ]ee also
*Planetarium
*London Planetarium
References
External links
*http://www.nmm.ac.uk/astronomy/planetarium.html
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