Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 66 — page 47: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION its position with respect to the equinoxes and celestial equator. The illusion produced in a Zeiss Planetarium is without _ parallel. Dr. Phillip Fox, first director of the Adler Planet- arium, Chicago, wrote that: “Visitors come to see a stirring spectacle, the heavens brought within the confines of museum walls. Not a trivial plaything, a mimic aping firmament, but the heavens portrayed in great dignity and splendour, dynamic, inspiring, in a way that dispels all mys- tery but retains the majesty.” Professor C. A. Chant, of the University of Toronto, writes that the semblance of reality “‘affects the trained astronomer among the audi- ence equally with the layman. There is no way of describing the experience. It is possible to describe the instrument and what it can do, but nothing short of seeing can convey any adequate idea of the per- formance.” Are they right? At the moment the nearest planetarium to the United Kingdom is in Paris, but this unhappy state of affairs is, fortunately, duetoberemedied. A Zeiss Planetarium is now under construction for in- stallation in London and so, very soon now, we shall be able to sit in comfort and enjoy the breathtaking spec- tacle of our own. artificial universe. Photographs by courtesy of Mr. A. H. Degenhardt, London representative of Messrs. Carl Zeiss. 46 comiclooks.com