Planetarium

The 60-seater James Lockyer planetarium was amongst the first of the buildings the Society commissioned and is the centrepiece of our public work.

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In 2005 the small Japanese projector gave way to a larger and more elaborate American instrument which was given to us by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

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A team of presenters can now deliver a variety of programmes on the night sky.

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