See the stars and eat dinner, or view a model of the moon landing: Planetariums and Observatories

Inside the Planetarium in Mill Hill, London, England, from Wiki

The former London Planetarium whose dome you can still admire.

London's former Planetarium was for many years been a chief attraction, built alongside Madame Tussaud's in Baker Street, and you could sometimes buy combined tickets for both. Now it is part of Madam Tussauds, displaying human stars instead of stars in the sky. I went there. You really needed to know something about the constellations by researching in advance to follow the commentary and gain maximum benefit.

London also has a university observatory open to the public by appointment. I have been there. It is for students to use from the department of physics and astronomy. Watford Way, A1, northbound carriageway. 

Mill Hill from Wiki

Other famous observatories include another in London, the Greenwich Observatory. 

Going West in England, the Clifton observatory is on the side of the Clifton Gorge, which is spanned by the suspension bridge built by Brunel.

Travelling north in the UK, to Edinburgh city, in Scotland, you can find an observatory converted into an art gallery and restaurant. The Lookout by Gardener's Cottage.

In Dundee, in Blangay woods a mile to the west, an observatory has outdoor walking trail called the Planet trail, marked by upright stones with inset plaques.

Dundee

Dundee

Dundee

Dundee, Scotland

Indoors you can see displays include the moon landing, and an astrolabe. You can also visit the Mills Observatory shop.

USA

The USA has an observatory in California in a lake. Some observatories were designed to observe the heavens and stars in order to set the time for ships at sea. Far to many to list. 16 in New York alone.

Adler Planetarium, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Tycho Brahe, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bangkok, Thailand.

National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Planetarium Mannheim, Germany.

Eise Eisinga Planetarium, Franeker, Netherlands. Photo by an Australian, Bertknot, in Wikipedia.

Europe and Australia

Many more observatories are in Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. Wiki has a whole list of observatories worldwide.

I made these interesting and happy discoveries by chance when researching the world observatory. For a Toastmasters meeting where I am the Language Evaluator and provide Word of the Day.

Here were my observations on the word of the day Observe.

Useful Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planetariums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCL_Observatory

https://www.thelookoutedinburgh.co/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_Observatory#/media/File:Millshop.jpg

Greenwich, London, England

https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/planetarium-shows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Planetarium

About the Author

Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.

About the Author Angela Lansbury

The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers, plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR

Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.

Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

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Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on 

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Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.

Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is  the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time.  Inauguration of the new committee was by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.

Next meetings will be on these dates (unless a national holiday in Singapore or worldwide)

Themes and word of the day are tentative

2021

JULY - JUBILANT JULY

Theme/WOD Jubilant

WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways)

1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish)

2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Wed July 7th What Your Committee Can Do For You

Saturday 17th

July 4th American Independence Day.

2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST

1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches

2 Evaluations

Wed 4th

Sat 21

2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER

Wed 1st

Sat 18th SPEECH CONTESTS

Humorous Speech Contest

Table Topics Contest

2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER

Wed 6th

Sat 16th

2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER

Wed 3rd

Sat 20th Wed

Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th.

Nov 25th American Thanksgiving.

Hanukah starts 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus.

2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER

Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month. Festival foods.)

Sat 18th

Speech on 

JAN 2022 - JOYFUL JANUARY

Wed Jan 5th New beginning - forget the past

Sat 15 Long-term plans = for the future/Chinese New Year (CNY for short)

2022 FEB FUN FEBRUARY

Theme Love and romance - Chinese New Year

Feb 1st and 2nd are holidays - do we move this Feb 2nd meeting date?)

Wed 2nd (Valentine's Day Mon Feb 14)

Sat 19th

2022 MAR - MARVELLOUS MARCH

Theme

Wed 2nd

Sat 19

March 1st is Christian Pancake day. 

2022 APR - APRIL'S AIMS

Wed 6th

Sat 16th

Muslim Ramadan 1-30 April.

Jewish Passover (Seder meal=Last supper) April

 16

2022 MAY - MODERNISING MAY

Wed 4th

Sat 21

2022 JUN - JUBILANT JUNE

Wed 1st

Sat 18th

Jul 6, Jul 16, Aug 3, Aug 20, Sept 7, Sept 17, Oct 5, Oct 15, Nov 2, Nov 19, Dec 7, Dec 17.

Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

See many varied posts such as the post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

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