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The Zeiss-Planetarium in
Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...
, Germany, is the oldest continuously operating
planetarium A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetarium ...
in the world. Engineered by German engineer
Walther Bauersfeld Walther Bauersfeld (23 January 1879 – 28 October 1959) was a German engineer. Life He was employed by the Carl Zeiss Jena, who, on a suggestion by the German astronomer Max Wolf, started work on the first projection planetarium in 1912. Th ...
, the building was opened on 18 July 1926. The Zeiss-Planetarium is a projection planetarium; the planets and fixed stars are projected onto the inner surface of a white cupola. It is owned and operated by the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung.


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Zeiss projector A Zeiss projector is one of a line of planetarium projectors manufactured by the Carl Zeiss Company. Main models include Copernican (1924), Model I (1925), Model II (1926), Model III (1957), Model IV (1957), Model V (1965), Model VI (1968) ...


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Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
Museums in Thuringia
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