Nehru Planetariums refer to fiveplanetariums in India named after India's firstPrime Minister,Jawaharlal Nehru. These are located inMumbai,New Delhi,Pune, andBengaluru. In addition, a sixth planetarium, theJawahar Planetarium, is located inPrayagraj, where Nehru was born.
The Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi is situated on the grounds ofTeen Murti Bhavan, previously known as 'Nehru Memorial Museum and Library', earlier the official residence of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and now a museum in his memory. In 1964, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund was set up to promote his ideas and it undertook to build the Nehru Planetarium with its aim being the promotion of astronomy education. This planetarium, like its namesake in Mumbai, was also inaugurated by Smt. Indira Gandhi on 6 February 1984.[1] One of the major attractions of this place is theSoyuz T-10 which carried India's firstcosmonautRakesh Sharma to space, along with his space suit and mission journal.
The Sky Theatre shown at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium are very popular and attracts more than 200,000 visitors per year. The sky theatre is a dome shaped theatre. It shows information on constellations and planets. Visuals such as cartoons, paintings, computer animations, video clippings and special effects are liberally used in the programmes at the sky theatre.
The planetarium was reopened in September 2010, after renovations worth Rs. 11 crore, ahead of the2010 Commonwealth Games and receivedQueen's Baton. It now has 'Definiti optical star projector "Megastar" that can show 2 million stars.[2] It also sets up old telescopes, projection boxes and solar filters at its premises at majorsolar eclipses.[3][4]
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