Zeiss Model I Planetarium Projector
Photograph by Albert Maly-Motta
Zeiss Model I Planetarium Projector
Photograph by Charles A. Miller
Zeiss Model II Planetarium Projector
The First of the Modern Day 'dumbell' Projectors
Seen here at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC and also in the following pictures taken from original glass magic lantern slides that are part of the Planetarium Projector Museums' historical archives.
Unusual picture of the Zeiss being projected on to a screen for a backdrop of a Tv show
Recently retired Zeiss Model IV at Griffith Planetarium (photo by Owen Phairis 8/2008)
Inside of Zeiss Starball showing light source and condensers.
(photo by Albert Maly-Motta)
Old Hayden Planetarium Zeiss Projector Paper Weight and Bronze Medallion.
In 2015 I had a wonderful visit from Remi Bragard who came all the way from France to visit my Planetarium Museum. He spent 3 days with me taking pictures of all my projectors and yesterday, September 21 2019, I received an autographed copy of his new planetarium book. It features around 27 pages of photographs from my Museum, and even includes a picture of me in the Museum doorway. The book also includes my friend Gary Likert.
The newest (April 2017) addition to our Planetarium is this large 8 foot tall 1/25 scale model of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It comes to us from Dr. Lonnie Hammargrens' Planetarium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Some of the Museums' Toy Planetariums
Museums' NASA Electron Microscope Ever wonder what happened to the RCA electron microscope that was used by Dr. Delbert E. Philpott to check the Apollo moon rock samples for life? Well, it has arrived here at the Museum in late April 2009 along with space flown samples.
Spring and Summer 2008 ads placed in: "The Great Western Observer" There are also articles on pages 16 and 31 about the Museum.
Index of issues may be found here: "Great Western Observer Index" Museums Fall ad and Winter 2008 ads for GWO are below:
2009 and 2010 Great Western Observer Ads
PLANETARIUMS GONE WILD
Short 60 Second Video Clip
Demonstration of the movements of the Goto S-2 and Mercury Projectors.
Museums' Goto M1 Northern Star Hemisphere 1961 Serial # 4
Museum has 2 Conic Coperican Helio-Centric Projection Orreries
Museums' Goto Projection Orrery
Museums' Helio-centric Projection Orreries: Viewlex, Spitz, Goto, Conic
Museums' Spitz Hand Sextants (A4, A3P, A1)
Planetarium Pointers (Antique, Goto S-2, Goto Mercury, Spitz A3P, Ednalite)
Museums' Mark II Astro-Compass 1942
Museums' Motorized Sunlit World Globe of Seattle
Museums' Model Satellite
The Museum has several model Telescopes including the 200 " Hale made by Barry Crist
Some of the Museums Projectors
Museums' Model Nautilus Submarine with Projectors
Closeup of Nautilus inspired by Jules Verne
Museums' Radio Telescope
Owens' 3" Brass Cassegrain Telescope from the Deutsches Museum (#293 of 1500)
Owens' Four inch f-15 Refractor Telescope
Showing the Barlow lens and Daystar H-Alpha Filter for observing the Sun
Owens' 4" Refractor Telescope remounted for Solar work on a fork mount
Owens' 8" f-6 Cave Astrola Newtonian Telescope
This was Tom Caves (1923-2003) Telescope that he would take to star parties, public outreach, and demos.
Owens' 6" f-8 Celestron Refractor Telescope
Owens' Table top Meade 8" SCT Reflector Telescope
Owens' Astro-Camera for Star Trails
Owens' 8" Meade Newtonian, 6" f-10 Vernon Refractor, 8" Meade SCT, and 4" Refractor Cluster
My Dream Telescope (48" Refractor at the 1900 Paris Exposition)
Yerkes 40 inch Refractor Telescope
Image taken from an old Magic Lantern Slide in the Planetarium Museum Collection.
What astronomers thought the moonscape would look like over 100 years ago.
Image taken from an old Magic Lantern Slide in the Planetarium Museum Collection.
Such a simple picture, yet it sparks my imagination beyond belief.
Owens' Geiger Counter Collection
Owens' Neutron Dosimeter
Owen has a large collection of 3-D stereo photography cameras, books, viewers, etc.
Owen has a collection of well over 100 cameras including large format, minature negative, and movie cameras.
16mm Mitchell Movie Camera used by NASA to record the Tv images sent back from the Moon.
Owen also has a collection of old Magic Lantern Slide Projectors.
Owens Altair 8800 Computer with a nine track Kennedy Tape Drive.
Owens IBM-1620 Computer, designed in 1959.
Museums' 138 pound Meteorite
Museums' Meteorite at Edwards AFB on loan to NASA for Public Outreach
Darlene with the Meteorite at Lancaster California for a NASA Public Outreach
Steve Smith from NASA and Owen holding Moon Rocks (Public Outreach)
Owen and Mary Ann at Apple Valley Air Show working on NASA Public Outreach
Autographed Photograph of Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)
Big Bear resident and friend Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper (1927-2004) and Owen at airshow
Letter to my Dad from Astronaut / Senator John Glenn (1921- 2016) concerning airline deregulation
Picture from Jack Swigert (1931-1982) from Apollo 13
Now showing in our Planetarium:
Captain Corona and the "Overcast of Doom"
Captain Corona - Action Hero and the Guardian of Sunlight
Now appearing in the "Overcast of Doom"
This painting of 'Captain Corona' was done in the early 1970s by famous Science Fiction Author David Brin while he was a student at Cal-Tech. Thanks to recent information provided by Bob Sills we now know that Captain Corona was the creation of Caltech student Dick Trtek and was based on Cal-Tech Professor Dr. Harold Zirin (1929-2012).
Just for FUN - "The Adventures of CAPTAIN PLANETARIUM"
In 2015 I had a wonderful visit from Remi Bragard who came all the way from France to visit my Planetarium Museum. He spent 3 days with me taking pictures of all my projectors and yesterday, September 21 2019, I received an autographed copy of his new planetarium book. It features around 27 pages of photographs from my Museum, and even includes a picture of me in the Museum doorway. The book also includes my friend Gary Likert.
The newest (April 2017) addition to our Planetarium is this large 8 foot tall 1/25 scale model of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It comes to us from Dr. Lonnie Hammargrens' Planetarium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The newest (April 2017) addition to our Planetarium is this large 8 foot tall 1/25 scale model of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It comes to us from Dr. Lonnie Hammargrens' Planetarium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Museums' NASA Electron Microscope Ever wonder what happened to the RCA electron microscope that was used by Dr. Delbert E. Philpott to check the Apollo moon rock samples for life? Well, it has arrived here at the Museum in late April 2009 along with space flown samples.
Spring and Summer 2008 ads placed in: "The Great Western Observer" There are also articles on pages 16 and 31 about the Museum.
Index of issues may be found here: "Great Western Observer Index" Museums Fall ad and Winter 2008 ads for GWO are below:
2009 and 2010 Great Western Observer Ads
PLANETARIUMS GONE WILD
Short 60 Second Video Clip
Demonstration of the movements of the Goto S-2 and Mercury Projectors.
Ever wonder what happened to the RCA electron microscope that was used by Dr. Delbert E. Philpott to check the Apollo moon rock samples for life? Well, it has arrived here at the Museum in late April 2009 along with space flown samples.
Spring and Summer 2008 ads placed in: "The Great Western Observer" There are also articles on pages 16 and 31 about the Museum.
Index of issues may be found here: "Great Western Observer Index" Museums Fall ad and Winter 2008 ads for GWO are below:
PLANETARIUMS GONE WILD
Short 60 Second Video Clip
Demonstration of the movements of the Goto S-2 and Mercury Projectors.
Museums' Goto M1 Northern Star Hemisphere 1961 Serial # 4
Museum has 2 Conic Coperican Helio-Centric Projection Orreries
Museums' Goto Projection Orrery
Museums' Helio-centric Projection Orreries: Viewlex, Spitz, Goto, Conic
Museums' Spitz Hand Sextants (A4, A3P, A1)
Planetarium Pointers (Antique, Goto S-2, Goto Mercury, Spitz A3P, Ednalite)
Museums' Mark II Astro-Compass 1942
Museums' Motorized Sunlit World Globe of Seattle
Museums' Model Satellite
The Museum has several model Telescopes including the 200 " Hale made by Barry Crist
Some of the Museums Projectors
Museums' Model Nautilus Submarine with Projectors
Closeup of Nautilus inspired by Jules Verne
Museums' Radio Telescope
Owens' 3" Brass Cassegrain Telescope from the Deutsches Museum (#293 of 1500)
Owens' Four inch f-15 Refractor Telescope
Showing the Barlow lens and Daystar H-Alpha Filter for observing the Sun
Owens' 4" Refractor Telescope remounted for Solar work on a fork mount
Owens' 8" f-6 Cave Astrola Newtonian Telescope
This was Tom Caves (1923-2003) Telescope that he would take to star parties, public outreach, and demos.
Owens' 6" f-8 Celestron Refractor Telescope
Owens' Table top Meade 8" SCT Reflector Telescope
Owens' Astro-Camera for Star Trails
Owens' 8" Meade Newtonian, 6" f-10 Vernon Refractor, 8" Meade SCT, and 4" Refractor Cluster
My Dream Telescope (48" Refractor at the 1900 Paris Exposition)
Yerkes 40 inch Refractor Telescope
Image taken from an old Magic Lantern Slide in the Planetarium Museum Collection.
What astronomers thought the moonscape would look like over 100 years ago.
Image taken from an old Magic Lantern Slide in the Planetarium Museum Collection.
Such a simple picture, yet it sparks my imagination beyond belief.
Owens' Geiger Counter Collection
Owens' Neutron Dosimeter
Owen has a large collection of 3-D stereo photography cameras, books, viewers, etc.
Owen has a collection of well over 100 cameras including large format, minature negative, and movie cameras.
16mm Mitchell Movie Camera used by NASA to record the Tv images sent back from the Moon.
Owen also has a collection of old Magic Lantern Slide Projectors.
Owens Altair 8800 Computer with a nine track Kennedy Tape Drive.
Owens IBM-1620 Computer, designed in 1959.
Museums' 138 pound Meteorite
Museums' Meteorite at Edwards AFB on loan to NASA for Public Outreach
Darlene with the Meteorite at Lancaster California for a NASA Public Outreach
Steve Smith from NASA and Owen holding Moon Rocks (Public Outreach)
Owen and Mary Ann at Apple Valley Air Show working on NASA Public Outreach
Autographed Photograph of Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)
Big Bear resident and friend Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper (1927-2004) and Owen at airshow
Letter to my Dad from Astronaut / Senator John Glenn (1921- 2016) concerning airline deregulation
Picture from Jack Swigert (1931-1982) from Apollo 13
Captain Corona and the "Overcast of Doom"
Captain Corona - Action Hero and the Guardian of Sunlight
Now appearing in the "Overcast of Doom"
This painting of 'Captain Corona' was done in the early 1970s by famous Science Fiction Author David Brin while he was a student at Cal-Tech. Thanks to recent information provided by Bob Sills we now know that Captain Corona was the creation of Caltech student Dick Trtek and was based on Cal-Tech Professor Dr. Harold Zirin (1929-2012).
Just for FUN - "The Adventures of CAPTAIN PLANETARIUM"
