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Hayden Planetarium is a public Planetarium located on Central Park West , New York City , next to and organizationally part of the American Museum Of Natural History .

Since 2000 , the planetarium has been one of the two main attractions within the Rose Center For Earth And Space . The planetarium is the top half of the Sphere, which uses a customized Zeiss Star Projector system, one of the most powerful Virtual Reality simulators in the world. The bottom half of the Sphere is home to the Big Bang , which transfers the visitors to the moment when the Universe was created.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the planetarium's director.


HISTORY

  • 1935 The Hayden Planetarium, designed by architects Trowbridge & Livingston , opens, after its construction is funded by a $650,000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and a $150,000 donation from Charles Hayden . Its mission was to give the public:

    • ::''a more lively and sincere appreciation of the magnitude of the universe... and for the wonderful things which are daily occurring in the universe.''

  • 1960 A Zeiss Mark IV Projector is installed.

  • 1973 A Zeiss Mark VI projector and new seats are installed.

  • 1979 The planetarium appears as a backdrop for scenes in the film '' Manhattan ''. Woody Allen and Diane Keaton play characters who walk around within the planetarium after escaping from a sudden downburst of rain.

  • 1997 The original Hayden Planetarium is closed in January.

  • 1999 A new, customized Zeiss Mark IX projector is installed in August. It is accompanied by a digital dome projection system that provides a 3-D Visualization of the universe based on images generated in real time by a Silicon Graphics supercomputer.

  • 2000 In February, the Rose Center for Earth and Space, designed by James Polshek and containing the new Hayden Planetarium, opens to the public.





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