London Planetarium

The London Planetarium is in Marylebone Road on the northern side of the city centre. It is adjacent to Madame Tussauds and is owned by the same company.

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London Planetarium - Marylebone Road - Madame Tussauds

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Originally built during the 1930s, the planetarium seats an audience of around 330 beneath a horizontal dome approximately 18m 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. During the 1990s, one of the world's first digital planetarium systems, Digistar (created by Evans & Sutherland was installed, allowing monochromatic 3D journeys through space and many other kinds of show to be presented.

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Evans & Sutherland - 3D

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In 2004 the London Planetarium was upgraded to a full-colour Digistar 3 system that allows both pre-rendered and real-time shows to transport the audience in a realistic immersive environment to distant realms of time and space.

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London Planetarium - Digistar 3 - Pre-rendered - Real-time - Immersive

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