Galileo Galilei planetarium

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The planetarium in 1967

The Galileo Galilei planetarium is located in Parque Tres de Febrero in the Palermo district of the Argentine city of Buenos Aires , at the intersection of Av. Sarmiento and Belisario Roldán. The dome of the planetarium has a diameter of 20 meters. The technology used was comprehensively renewed in 2011.

history

entrance
Museum walk

The plan to build a planetarium in Buenos Aires was made in 1958. Construction under the direction of the Argentine architect Enrique Jan began in 1962, the inauguration took place on December 20, 1966. The first presentation took place in June 1967, the permanent opening took place on April 5, 1968. In 2011 the planetarium was redesigned.

Building and technical equipment

Neighboring lake

The building consists of five floors, six staircases and a round hall with a diameter of 20 m. The projection half-dome is also 20 m in diameter and is clad with aluminum on the inside. On the first floor there is a museum that exhibits a piece of moon rock that was brought to earth as part of the Apollo 11 mission . The stone was a gift from former US President Richard Nixon . Various meteorites are exhibited in the access area of ​​the planetarium.

Until 2011, a Zeiss Mark V projector 5 m high was used, using around 100 projectors. There were separate projectors for the moon , the sun and the planets visible to the naked eye - Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter and Saturn - as well as two spheres at the extremes, which were used to project the stars.

Reform 2011

Galileo Galilei planetarium at night

The 2011 reform installed a MEGASTAR II A projector, which can project many more stars than a conventional device; more realistic image projections are also possible. It was the first planetarium projector ever to use LED lights. The planetarium was reopened on December 15, 2011.

Performances for the blind and hard of hearing

The planetarium offers options for people with disabilities with its program "El Cielo para Todos".

  • For the first time in 2001, with the support of the BAC (Biblioteca Argentina para Ciegos), tactile star maps, relief images, recorded text and sound effects were combined at the presentations for the blind.
  • Demonstrations with comments in gesture language are offered for deaf visitors.
  • A large section of the audience area has special amplifiers that make it easier to hear with hearing aids.

Picture gallery

  • planetarium

  • Planetarium and artificial lake under a cloudy sky

  • Illuminated planetarium

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Zeiss Argentina ( Memento from July 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Romero, María José; Colas bajo la lluvia para ver el nuevo Planetario Diario Clarín, 16 de diciembre de 2011
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.planetario.gov.ar

Coordinates: 34 ° 34 ′ 11 "  S , 58 ° 24 ′ 42"  W