Re: Planetaria

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

I THINK (if I remember correctly) that Gibbes Planetarium in 
Columbia, SC recently built a new one. I know they moved the museum 
that it was a part of so I suppose the Planetarium went with it. 
Anyway, I've got an email in to a colleague down there to see if I 
can get some more info.

Personally, I think I would build an observatory first. Nothing like 
the real thing. But perhaps y'all already have one.


> We are kicking around silly ideas (silly idea season) and have decided we
> absolutely MUST HAVE a Planetarium.  Having taken the first step (determined
> the presence of interest and willpower) we are now onto step 2: who builds
> these things?
>
> Does anyone know a contact person for a recently designed and constructed 
> planetarium, or even better, know someone who has ever designed and 
> constructed a planetarium?  I thought I'd ask the list before hitting the
> yellow pages for nearby cities...
>
> Dan M
>
> Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
> danmac@nau.edu  http://www.phy.nau.edu/~danmac/homepage.html

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