22 Mar 2000, London Planetarium

22 Mar 2000, London Planetarium

Marylebone Road, London.

Opened in 1958. “In 1995, one of the world’s first digital planetarium systems, Digistar II … was installed …, allowing monochromatic 3D journeys through space … to be presented”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Planetarium

Notes:

  • “Professor Hawkins in his wheelchair hovering over the edge of a black hole”
  • Projector Digistar II: 3-dimensional graphic capability -> feeling of flying through the stars