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MAINE

Kennaday Planetarium, Dismukes
Hall, Maine Maritime Academy
1 Pleasant Street
Castine, ME 04420-0001

Opened 1961
UNIV/COLLEGE

6.4m, installed 1964
Capacity 30
Spitz A3, installed 1964

Used primarily for teaching Celestial Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, secondarily for Astronomy club shows to general public.

Richard J. Clarke, III, Planetarium Operator
Allison Tunick
Andy Chase +1 207 326 2126

Northern Stars Planetarium
15 Western Avenue
Fairfield, ME 04937

+1 207 453 7668

www.northern-stars.com

Opened 1987
PRIVATE/COMML

6.7m STARLAB, installed 1987
Capacity 65, portable; annual attendance: 19,000
STARLAB, installed 1987

4.9m STARLAB, installed 1987
Capacity 30, portable
STARLAB

We are a privately owned and operated Starlab with a portable console that runs four Ektagraphics, an LCD video projector and over twenty special effects. We offer more than 25 show topics for grades K-8 and give between 500-600 shows per yer.

John Turner Meader, Director

Planetarium ????????
Troy Central School
733 Bangor Road
Troy, ME 04987

+1 207 948 2280
+1 207 948 5211 fax

Opened 1996
SCHOOL/DIST

4.9m STARLAB, installed 1996
Capacity 30, portable
STARLAB, installed 1996

Christopher J. DiSalvatore, Teacher/Planetarium Coord.
Laura Gabriel, Principal

MARYLAND

Capt Underhill Mem Planetarium
Maritime Inst. of Technology
5700 Hammonds Ferry Road
Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1952

+1 410 859 5700x3254
+1 410 859 5181 fax

www.mitags.org

Opened 1960
UNIV/COLLEGE

12.2m, installed 1970
Capacity 50, concentric
Spitz A3P, installed 1970

Small but well maintained planetarium showing N and S hemispheres, availble for groups on a custom reservation basis. Please call to arrange viewing. Planetarium is used mostly to train mariners in celestial navigation.

Michael W. Carr +1 443 989 3254

MASSACHUSETTS

Bassett Planetarium, 201
Morgan Hall, Amherst College
165 South Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002

+1 413 542 2138
+1 413 542 5821 fax

www.amherst.edu/~bassett

Opened 1960
UNIV/COLLEGE

9.1m
Capacity 60, V-chevron; attendance: 5,000 (2006)
Spitz A3P

Steven Sauter, Planetarium Director +1 413 542 5054
Rob Oldershaw, Museum/Planetarium Scheduler

Starlab Planetarium
Stars Science Theater
2143 Commonwealth Avenue
Auburndale, MA 02466

+1 617 861 0743
+1 866 583 7735 fax

www.mike-francis.com/sst.htm

Opened 1989
PRIVATE/COMML

4.9m STARLAB, installed 1999
Capacity 30, portable; attendance: 3,000 (2012)
STARLAB

Night Skies is a live planetarium program featuring the current sky. The Starry Messenger is a lecture by Galileo (www.Mike-Francis.com/sm.htm). The Stargazer's Apprentice, a musical, comical, astronomical review on the heavens (www.Mike-Francis.com/sa.htm).

Mike Francis, Owner, Director, Performer ,

Planetarium
Carver Middle High School
60 South Meadow Road
Carver, MA 02330

+1 508 866 6291

Opened 1988
SCHOOL/DIST

9.1m, installed 1988
Spitz 512, installed 1988

Dennis Nobrega +1 508 866 6140

Arunah Hill Planetarium
Arunah Hill Nat. Science Ctr.
218 Truble Street
Cummington, MA 01026

+1 413 772 6715

www.arunah.org/facilities/planetarium.htm

Opened 1993
MUSEUM/SCI.CTR

3m, installed 1993
Capacity 20, concentric; annual attendance: 200
Spitz Nova III, installed 1993

Steve J. Pielock, Director www.pielock.com Planetarium Restoration