Where is Armagh Planetarium?

Armagh Planetarium is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.3520°, -6.6490°.

Observatories · Northern Ireland

Armagh Planetarium

Armagh Planetarium in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1.5 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Moonless winter nights (Oct–Mar)

Armagh Planetarium is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Armagh Planetarium is a planetarium in Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is located close to the city centre and neighbouring Armagh Observatory in approximately fourteen acres of landscaped grounds known as the Armagh Astropark.

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Background

History

Armagh Planetarium was established by the seventh director of Armagh Observatory, Dr. Eric Mervyn Lindsay, who, after twenty-five years of effort, secured funding from local councils and the Ministry of Commerce of Northern Ireland in 1965. In the same year, Patrick Moore was appointed as director of the planetarium to oversee its construction. The planetarium cost £120,000 to build (included in this was £12,000 for the planetarium's first projector) and was officially opened on 1 May 1968, although it had been open to the public for some months before that. Since then it has undergone a number of alterations: the main building was extended in 1974 to incorporate the Lindsay Hall of…

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