From the archives: the entrance to the Hayden Planetarium, 1965

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This image of the Milky Way over New York City is shown using the new projection system in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on one side (left of the red line) and the previous system on the other side (right of the red line). Thousands more stars are now visible in the dome. The recent upgrade increased the video projector’s contrast ratio between light and dark to 500,000 to 1.  (By comparison, most movie theater projectors have a ratio of only 2,000 to 1!)

Find out more here. Photo by Denis

Tonight is the last night to see Joshua Light Show perform Fulldome in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater! Photo by Rod. 

Tonight in the Hayden Planetarium, New York’s legendary Joshua Light Show will present Fulldome, an original work of light and sound that explores the neurological phenomenon synesthesia. Rod shot this preview of the performance.

Tickets are available here.

Rod took this photograph of the night sky at a recent event in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater.