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The heart of the planetarium – the new balopticon Universarium M9

Author: Mikhail Kolobaev

Published: 12 June 2011

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A historical building has been lifted up six meters

It feels like you are on the set for the film “Star Wars”

A glass projection screen – the picture hangs in the air

The planetarium mockup at the entrance is lit with all the colors of the rainbow

A real small tornado of air-flows and steam

You can hear radio signals belonging to certain places on the globe if you touch them

Magnetized balls show gravitational interaction between celestial bodies

You can guess the name of a stellar constellation by pressing the right button

Old starry sky balopticons of the Moscow planetarium

The Vostok ZKA-2 spaceship’s landing capsule

There are 113 samples of extraterrestrial matter in the museum’s meteorites collection

Optic scheme of light dispersion into a spectrum

Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth...

Exhibits from the planetarium’s museum collection

A medieval astronomer and a big collection of ancient astronomy tools

This starry sky balopticon worked in 1977-1994

The lamp and optic equipment of a balopticon from 1929

Popular singer Iliya Lagutenko and his family generate a cloud

Figure out your weight in the different gravity conditions

The heart of the planetarium – the new balopticon Universarium M9

The system is controlled from this small board

The Big Stellar Hall – though unfortunately without stars

The heart of the planetarium – the new balopticon Universarium M9. It consists of 32 projectors showing 9,100 glimmering stars. The machine can simulate a starry sky with maximum precision for the present moment and show astronomic phenomena for 10,000 years

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