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Planetarium Historical Museum



USA , CALIFORNIA , BIG BEAR LAKE
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Planetarium Historical Museum
Planetarium Historical Museum
Planetarium Historical Museum
Planetarium Historical Museum
Planetarium Historical Museum
Planetarium Historical Museum
Planetarium Historical Museum
Planetarium Historical Museum
Planetarium Historical Museum


Type: Museum
Opened in 2000

Address: PO. Box 3400 - Big Bear Lake, CA 92315
Country: USA
Email: ophairis301@gmail.com
Phone: +1 909 806-5698

Website: https://www.planetariummuseum.org/
Website 2: https://www.pictorialism.com/


Team
Owen Phairis







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Dome of  6.0m




Technical
Optical system old models : Zeiss, Spitz, Minolta, Goto, etc.

Facilities

Operation
Staff: 1 people

History
- 2000: start of the collection
- 2017: Owen Phairis offers to sell his collection to a museum (without results)


Comments
Owen Phairis maintains the largest collection of planetarium projectors in the world:
Spitz:
- A1 (2 copies)
- A2
- A3-P
- 373
- 512
- STP
- STS Voyager
- STS Prototype
Minolta: Series IIB
Goto:
- EX-3
- E-5
- S2
- Mercury
- Venus (2 copies)
- Viewlex Apollo
Harmonic Reed Nova III
Dick Emmons Homemade
Musser Prototype
Zeiss: ZKP 3B (2 copies)


Latitude: 34°14'28" N  -  Longitude: 116°55'45" W  -  Altitude: 2074m
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last update: 10/09/2023

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