This Site Burning Questions Trivia Activities at the Montgomery College Planetarium in Takoma Park are coordinated by Dr. Harold Williams. He's also an expert on astrolabes. Williams serves as coordinator for the Planetarium at the college's Takoma Park campus.
Planetariums are for everybody else to learn how the sky works.
According to Williams, we can thank the U.S.-Soviet race for space for the facility. Ground was broken for the Planetarium in September, 1959. By March of 1960, the first-floor, brick rotunda was open, and College faculty soon began educating the public about the heavens above. The Planetarium's distinctive silvery dome rises above the South Science Building on Fenton Street. Inside the chamber, the dome above produces a peculiar dampened hush.