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London Planetarium
For star spotting of a different kind, Tussaud's London Planetarium is
next to the Madame Tussaud's Waxwork Museum. Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and
Neil Armstrong meet you at the exciting Intergalactic Spaceport
Check-in. You then move into the Departure Lounge area where hands-on
space entertainment awaits.
The building that once housed
the London Planetarium is in Marylebone Road, London. It is adjacent to
Madame Tussauds and is owned by the same company.
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Opened in 1958 on the site of an old cinema that was destroyed in the
Second World War, the planetarium seated an audience of around 330
beneath a horizontal dome approximately 18 m in diameter. For its first
five decades of operation, an opto-mechanical star projector offered the
audience a show based on a view of the night sky as seen from earth.
Between 1977 and 1990, evening laser performances called 'Laserium' were
held. In 1995, one of the world's first digital planetarium systems,
Digistar 2 (created by Evans & Sutherland) was installed in a £4.5
million redevelopment, allowing monochromatic 3D journeys through space
and many other kinds of show to be presented. The planetarium was used
to teach students from University College London's astronomy department
the complexity of the Celestial coordinate system, allowing for
practical lectures delivered by a unison of planetarium and UCL staff.
In 2004, the Planetarium was upgraded to a full-colour Digistar 3 system
that allows both pre-rendered and real-time shows to transport the
audience in an immersive fulldome video environment to distant realms of
time and space.
In January 2006, the London Planetarium had been renamed the Auditorium,
and Madame Tussauds announced that in July 2006 the Auditorium would
open with a show by Aardman Animations about celebrities. To say
'farewell' to the planetarium, Madame Tussauds allowed free entry to the
show in its penultimate, week (24–30 April 2006).
The London Planetarium no longer exists and it is no longer possible to
visit it as a discrete attraction. The web site is redirected to Madame
Tussauds and here is a statement from their web site:
"In 2006 the Planetarium was rebranded and renamed the Star Dome. The
Star Dome is part of the Madame Tussauds attraction and is included in
the ticket price. Please note that we no longer show astronomy-based
shows"
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