It has been constructed in the memory of B.M Birla. Multitudes of schools have made it a point to send their students to take a glance of this planetarium. Some of them have bestowed upon them, various projects on Birla Planetarium, thus creating special interests in the young generations and also general public in a similar way. Being the most modern planetarium of the Indian subcontinent, the techniques that are applied are fully computerized. There is a special projector applied to bring to life various wonders of whole of universe like planets, meteors, comets, telescopes, eclipses, images are being created on a semi-circular auditorium. It is for sure that every visitor is being transmitted to a completely new arena, the moment one gets engrossed in watching a huge dome of an open murky sky, full of bright stars blinking now and then. The brilliant sound effects put extra inputs in bringing a feeling of traveling through the Space. |