In the centre of the theatre is a well, housing the Carl Zeiss Spaceflight Master projector placed on a hydraulic lift which enables it to come up during the shows.
The Planetarium building archaeologically gels with a nearby monument, the Kushak Mahal, a 13th century hunting lodge built by the Lodhi rulers.
The air-conditioned sky theatre has a dome-shaped screen made of fibre glass with 26 curved segments and one million hand-drilled holes for clear accoustics.
The sky theatre with a capacity of seating 270 people is essentially meant for screening taped and live public shows on various aspects of astronomy.
In the centre of the theatre is a well, housing the Carl Zeiss Spaceflight Master projector placed on a hydraulic lift which enables it to come up during the shows. The gallery around the sky theatre helps in locating the slide and special effects projectors.
Besides the sky theatre, the Planetarium also has an exhibit area which displays many interactive models and pictures. Visitors have the rare privilege of looking at the historic space module Soyuz T-10 which carried India’s first cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma, to space alongwith his space suit and mission journal. (Source: pib.nic.in)
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