page_title: Zeiss projector
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caption_attribution_description: English: One of the two lens bearing spheres of the Zeiss Mark IV planetarium projector on display at the Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai, India.
context_page_description: A Zeiss projector is one of a line of planetarium projectors manufactured by the Carl Zeiss Company.
  The first modern planetarium projectors were designed and built in 1924 by the Zeiss Works of Jena, Germany in 1924. Zeiss projectors are designed to sit in the middle of a dark, dome-covered room and project an accurate image of the stars and other astronomical objects on the dome. They are generally large, complicated, and imposing machines.
  The first Zeiss Mark I projector was installed in the Deutsches Museum in Munich in August, 1923. It possessed a distinctive appearance, with a single sphere of projection lenses supported above a large, angled "planet cage". Marks II through VI were similar in appearance, using two spheres of star projectors separated along a central axis that contained projectors for the planets. Beginning with Mark VII, the central axis was eliminated and the two spheres were merged into a single, egg-shaped projection unit.
context_section_description: A Zeiss projector is one of a line of planetarium projectors manufactured by the Carl Zeiss Company.
  The first modern planetarium projectors were designed and built in 1924 by the Zeiss Works of Jena, Germany in 1924.  Zeiss projectors are designed to sit in the middle of a dark, dome-covered room and project an accurate image of the stars and other astronomical objects on the dome.  They are generally large, complicated, and imposing machines.
  The first Zeiss Mark I projector (the first planetarium projector in the world) was installed in the Deutsches Museum in Munich in August, 1923.  It possessed a distinctive appearance, with a single sphere of projection lenses supported above a large, angled "planet cage".  Marks II through VI were similar in appearance, using two spheres of star projectors separated along a central axis that contained projectors for the planets.  Beginning with Mark VII, the central axis was eliminated and the two spheres were merged into a single, egg-shaped projection unit.
caption: Closeup of a lens bearing sphere of the Zeiss Mark IV planetarium projector on display at the Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai, India.
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