Planning a Planetarium
Facilities
A school planetarium has to meet different requirements than a large planetarium in a theme park. The lists below are only intended as a recommendation and are by no means complete. In any case, the selection of options will usually be determined by the budget available. It is therefore a comfort to know that the experienced Carl Zeiss project team is there for advice and support.

Visitor areas
  • Entrance area / porch
  • Entrance hall / lobby
  • Box office / ticket sale / souvenir shop
  • Cloakroom
  • Light trap leading to the auditorium
  • Auditorium / planetarium dome
  • Exhibition area
  • Observatory
  • Lecture / movie theater
  • Conference / meeting room
  • Library
  • Café / restaurant
  • Ramps, etc. for wheelchairs
  • Visitors' toilets

Production areas
  • Offices / secretary's office
  • Optical/mechanical, electrical/electronic, wood/cardboard workshops
  • Sound studio with speaker's booth
  • Photo lab / reproduction studio
  • Video studio / editing workstation / rendering farm
  • Archive for image and data media
  • Computer / control room
  • Staff kitchen

Service areas
  • Projection dome
  • Catwalk / ladder behind the dome
  • Light trap leading to the auditorium
  • Control desk
  • Stage / platform
  • Projector gallery / projector booth
  • Pit for projector lift
  • Laser room
  • Computer / control room
  • Movie projector room
  • HVAC system
  • Staff toilets
  • Room for emergency power supply / stand-by battery
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Visitor areas
Production areas
Service areas