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#1 2026-10-07 07:29:29

Oldfart1939
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World's Oldest Planetarium in Jena; Zeiss Plaanetarium

Hello to all!
I am currently traveling in Germany and possibly Czechia and Austria.

Yesterday I was in Jena, Thuringia--home of Carl Zeiss Optical and the Schott Werk. I found the information on the Zeiss Planetarium online while looking for some interesting astronomy sites to visit almost 2 years ago.

I went through Jena last year and found that there were no tickets available that day because of several grade schools visiting. Didn't mention it here on this website--a nothing burger.

This year I purchased an online advanced date admission and the presentation was marvelous, entitled Our Universe, and it was a full 1 hour tour of our solar system and galaxy--then extending into the depth of the Universe.

The entire narration was in German, but I am just proficient enough to follow the program.Anyone traveling to Germany who is a space geek simply can't miss it; cost of the presentation  was 15 Euros.

As an edit: The Ernst Abbe Optical Museum is also an attraction, and both Goethe and Schiller lived and worked there parts of their lives.

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#2 2026-10-07 08:54:15

tahanson43206
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Re: World's Oldest Planetarium in Jena; Zeiss Plaanetarium

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This topic has potential for significant development.  The history of the site noted by Oldfart1939 is a possibility. A history of the insights and experiments that led to our present understanding would take up multiple books, and a citation or two of all those books would seem a good fit.

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